The Impact of Pharmacist Intervention on Medication Errors In A Teaching Hospital Quetta, Pakistan

Ahmed, Tanzeel; Haq, N.; Rehman, Mohamed A.; Nasim, Aqeel

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“…All studies included in the systematic review were eligible for meta-analysis (Fig 2). Ten of twelve studies indicated a clear and significant decrease in the incidence of medication errors after implementing a pharmacist-led educational intervention [27,[29][30][31][33][34][35][36][37][38]. The pooled OR (n = 115 058 participants) across all studies was 0.38 (95% CI 0.22 to 0.65) (P = 0.0004).…”

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“…All included studies delivered informative didactic lectures as part of their intervention. This was a sole intervention in six studies [27,28,30,32,34,35] or was combined with other forms of educational interventions, including posters (n = 5) [29,31,[36][37][38]; practical teaching sessions [36,38]; audit and feedback method along with a weekly newsletter [33]; and pocketsized flashcards of high-risk abbreviations [37]. Studies that included posters in addition to lectures indicated that the posters were placed in the ward and included important recommendations and guidance for healthcare providers.…”

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“…teaching sessions covered preparation and administration of commonly used medications in addition to individualized 30-minute sessions delivered to new residents or 45-minutes group discussions of patient cases [36,38]. The frequency of the educational sessions varied from once only in two studies [27,28] to a total of 21 sessions over a period of six months [32] while it was not reported in four studies [29,31,34,37]. All studies did not report the number and duration of lectures, except for Chedoe et al (five 1-hour sessions) [36]; Gursanscky et al (twelve 10-minutes sessions) [30]; Nguyen et al (two 30-minutes sessions) [38]; Peeters et al (phase 1: one 1-hour session, phase 2: eight 15-minutes sessions) [32]; and Winder et al (one 1-hour session) [33].…”

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Introduction Medication errors are avoidable events that can occur at any stage of the medication use process. They are widespread in healthcare systems and are linked to an increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Several strategies have been studied to reduce their occurrence including different types of pharmacy-based interventions. One of the main pharmacist-led interventions is educational programs, which seem to have promising benefits. Objective To describe and compare various pharmacist-led educational interventions delivered to healthcare providers and to evaluate their impact qualitatively and quantitatively on medication error rates. Methods A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted through searching Cochrane Library, EBSCO, EMBASE, Medline and Google Scholar from inception to June 2020. Only interventional studies that reported medication error rate change after the intervention were included. Two independent authors worked through the data extraction and quality assessment using Crowe Critical Appraisal Tool (CCAT). Summary odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using a random-effects model for rates of medication errors. Research protocol is available in The International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) under the registration number CRD42019116465. Results Twelve studies involving 115058 participants were included. The two main recipients of the educational interventions were nurses and resident physicians. Educational programs involved lectures, posters, practical teaching sessions, audit and feedback method and flash cards of high-risk abbreviations. All studies included educational sessions as part of their program, either alone or in combination with other approaches, and most studies used errors encountered before implementing the intervention to inform the content of these sessions. Educational programs led by a pharmacist were associated with significant reductions in the overall rate of medication errors occurrence (OR, 0.38; 95% CI, 0.22 to 0.65). Conclusion Pharmacist-led educational interventions directed to healthcare providers are effective at reducing medication error rates. This review supports the implementation of pharmacist-led educational intervention aimed at reducing medication errors.

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“…But the present study supported the result of earlier studies perform by the tanzeel. The omission errors were (98.34%) in the pre intervention 29 and (80.78%). The errors of omission was the most common (41%).…”

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“…The same data collection far mused which was introduce by Ahmed, Haq et al, 29 modified and this time only omission errors were recorded.…”

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Objective: This study was designed to evaluate the omission errors in a tertiary care hospital Quetta, Pakistan. Material and methods:The study was prospective analysis of treatment slips. Assessment was done by Pharmacist during (July-November 2017). The data of the study was collected from the treatment slips of all admit patients to odd number of beds in pediatric medicine ward of BMCHQ, Pakistan. The data was collected by visiting 3 shifts (morning, evening and night), recorded in the data collection form, analyzed and interpreted. Results:The total omission errors were 12056 (74.43%), out of which most of the omission errors were in the month of September 2017 the omission errors 3485 (28.90%).Most of the omission errors were 7632 (63.30%), found in male patients than female. The omission errors in morning shift were 5624 (46.64%), followed by evening shift 1456 (12.07%) and in night shift 4976 (41.27%). the most of omission errors in age group 1year-5years were 5454 (40.98%), followed by<1 years of age group was 3311 (27.46%), 5years-10years 2027 (16.81%) and in the age group of >10 years & above 1264 (10.48%). Conclusion:The rate of omission errors was very high percentage in inpatients setting. Most of the omission errors were found in the morning and night shifts which indicate that the nurses of both shifts were responsible for these errors.

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