OUT – PATIENT PHARMACY MEDICATION ERRORS - A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY IN OMAN
Asma Nasser Al- Habsi and *Alka Ahuja
ABSTRACT
Medical errors are often described as human errors in healthcare. A
medication error is „a failure in the treatment process that leads to or
has the potential to harm the patient. However, medical error
definitions are subject to debate, as there are many types of medical
errors ranging from minor to major. Medical errors are associated with
inexperienced physicians and nurses, new procedures, extremes of age, complex or urgent
care and poor communication. Vast majority of medical errors result from faulty systems and
poorly designed processes and poor practices or incompetent health care professionals. They
can be classified as prescribing errors by doctors (medication orders, like the dose, frequency,
duration, medication selection, prescribing medicine with no indication, therapeutic
duplication, transcription error.
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