Examining the Medication Errors of Electronic Orders About Patients’ Medications Which They Used Before Hospital Admission
Aylin Durmaz Edeer1, Serap Kara
2, Nihal Müezzinler Evsine
2, Gülçin Cengiz
2, Filiz Apaydın
21Dokuz Eylul University, Nursing Faculty, Izmir, Turkey
2Hospital of Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey
OBJECTIVE: Medication error is the most common type of error that affects patients’ security. It mostly happens during hospital admission, discharge and transfer from one clinic to another. The aim of this descriptive study was to examine medication errors on electronic orders about patients’ medications prior to hospitalization.
METHODS: 20 Cardiovascular surgical patients were reviwed. Data of the study continued to be collected. Data were collected with a questionnaire and a electronic orders form. Kurumlardan ilgili izinler alınmıştır.
RESULTS: Patients were aged between 40 and 80 years, with a mean age of 62.26 ± 11.23 years. Of all participants, 73.3 % were male, 98% were married. Fifty three percent of the patients had coronary artery disease, and twenty percent of the patients had aneurysm. Forty percent of the patients had diabetes mellitus and hypertension, and Forty percent of the patients had only hypertension.
It has been found that in electronic orders form, the 33.3% of the patients error of medication. In electronic orders forms, there has been a medication omission error in the 33.3% of the patients.
CONCLUSIONS: The high error ratio in the electronic orders forms has shown that the health professional didn’t have efficient and right history. It showed similarities with other studies. It has been suggested that there should be studies into the improvement form of the medication reconciliation.
Keywords: medication error, medication reconciliation