GRP-155 Reconciliation Errors Associated with Antiretroviral Treatment

Abstract

A56Eur J Hosp Pharm 2013;20(Suppl 1):A1-A238 After clarification, 47 (41.59%) DRCs were REs, while 5 discrepancies (4.42%) (2 patients) could not be resolved. 8.91% of prescriptions (47/528) were REs.REs affected 22 (45.83%) of the 48 real study patients. The average number of REs per patient was 2.14 ± 1.21.Types of RE were: omissions (n = 31), different dose/route/ frequency (n = 7), unnecessary medicines (n = 5), wrong medicine (n = 3) and incomplete prescription (n = 1).In terms of severity, REs were distributed as follows: No error, but possible (n = 10), error that does not reach the patient (n = 25), error reaching but not harmful (n = 11) and error requiring monitoring (n = 1). Conclusions The process of taking a pharmacotherapeutic history at hospital admission is inadequate since almost half of the patients showed REs, mostly omissions.Although most REs caused no harm, if perpetuated at discharge, they might have worse consequences and/or affect the effectiveness of treatment.The pharmacist's work in hospitalisation units is vital to reduce errors in care transitions and represents an opportunity to develop integral pharmaceutical attention in order to increase patient safety.No conflict of interest. Reducing the incidence of "Missed doses" at noRth BRistol nhs tRust (nBt)