Prescribing errors in a Brazilian neonatal intensive care unit

Physician Acceptance of Pharmacist Recommendations about Medication Prescribing Errors in Iraqi Hospitals

“…In the Dutch study, central nervous system medications were the most commonly involved in prescribing errors [19]. Thus, this study confirmed the findings of studies from around the world that antibiotics are the most common medication category involved in prescribing errors [22,24,25].…”

“…The observational Iraqi study (in the Kurdistan region) also found that antibiotics were the most common therapeutic category associated with medication errors (32.4 %) in a pediatric hospital [18]. Likewise, the Brazilian (45.7%) and American (23.1%) studies found systemic antibiotics were the most frequent medication category involved in MPEs in neonates [22,25]. In the Dutch study, central nervous system medications were the most commonly involved in prescribing errors [19].…”

“…Other countries had much higher MPE incidence rate. For example, Brazilian intensive care unit had 43.5 % MPEs, and Ethiopian, Saudi and Indian hospitals had 40 %, 56% and 34 % MPEs respectively [20,22,24,29].…”

“…There was only one Iraqi study measuring medication errors by 2014 and this was an observational study (without interventions) which evaluated the types and medication classes of these errors [18]. Although several studies have investigated pharmacist interventions in prescribing errors around the world [6,8,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25], almost all of these studies were limited to evaluations of the incidence rate, causes, clinical significance and types of prescribing errors. However, a little is known about physician acceptance rate of pharmacist recommendations and only a couple of studies have focused on implementation of recommendations [26,27].…”

Antimicrobial drug-related problems in a neonatal intensive care unit

“…In Brazil, Machado et al (16) evaluated prescribing errors in a NICU. The researchers observed that antimicrobials were the medications most frequently associated with inadequate prescriptions and that in addition to inadequate dosing, errors attributed to the use of diluents were also a significant problem.…”