#30 Preventing and reporting medication errors – Rabat CC & UMC
Drug Safety Matters
English - May 15, 2024 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBMedicine Health & Fitness Science Life Sciences drug safety healthcare medicine medicines safety patient safety pharmacovigilance side effects Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Look-alike medicines, unclear communication and distractions during administration – medication errors may occur for many different reasons. They all have in common that they are unintended mistakes in the drug treatment process that may or may not lead to patient harm. In this episode Ghita Benabdallah and Loubna Alj from the national pharmacovigilance centre of Morocco, and Alem Zekarias from Uppsala Monitoring Centre discuss how we can prevent medication errors from occurring – and, when they do occur, make sure that they are reported as such.
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What are the most common causes for medication errors?How should strategies for preventing medication errors be devised? How does the assessment of suspected medication error reports differ from “regular” ADR signal assessment?What can be done to encourage healthcare professionals to report medication errors?
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