The General Objective of This Study is to Monitor, Assess, and Prevent the Potential Medication Errors Among Inpatients in the Tertiary Healthcare Facility of Nepal. This Study Aims to Develop and Implement the Medication Errors Reporting System in Hospital Settings.

N/ANot Yet RecruitingNCT07002606

Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences62 enrolled

Overview

The goal of this observational study is to develop and implement Medication errors reporting system using the error reporting guidelines. The main question it aims to answer is: "Does development and implementation of Medication errors reporting guideline will help to reduce the errors rate and improve the patient safety?"

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Prescription With Medication Errors

Interventions

medication errors reporting guidelinesOTHER

the intervention is designed to reduce the medication errors and develop the culture of reporting the Medication errors in clinical settings.

Eligibility

Sex: ALL

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * For the quantitative part, the inclusion criteria are patients of all age groups and prescriptions issued to inpatients. * For the qualitative part of the study, inclusion criteria are healthcare professionals aged more than 18 years working in Dhulikhel Hospital. Exclusion criteria: * The exclusion criteria will be incomplete and unclear prescriptions. * The healthcare persons who accepted the consent but couldn't complete the survey will be excluded from the study.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

reduction in Mediation error rate

The newly developed Medication errors reporting guidelines will be implemented and will be used to evaluate the reduction in medication errors incident rates.

Time frame: 6 months after the implementation of the Medication errors reporting guidelines