A Study of the Pharmacist's dispensing errors
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
Chen, Jui-Yin
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
The Purpose of this study is to understand the dispensing error type of hospital pharmacist and to explore the relationship between dispensing error and risk factor, and to bring up some suggestions for hospital pharmacy department according to this study outcome. To understand dispensing error of a pharmacist, ASHP (1993) pharmacist error types were applied. This study was a cross-section questionnaire survey which included 59 hospitals. Within collection period of two months, 811 valid questionnaires were obtained. Major results of this study were listed below:
Most of the respondents were female (73.5%) between the ages of 20 and 39, and are full time pharmacists; 71.6% are have a college degree or higher, work in place pharmacies catering to outpatients as well as inpatients. Most of those responding participate in extra education 1-4 hours on average a month and look up pharmaceutical information 1-5 times on average a month. 50% of pharmacy department the drugs were placed in alphabetical order while 35.2% were sorted according to the class of the drug. The most frequent types of errors in dispensing these drugs which I found is as follows: first, “the wrong quantity given”, second, “the wrong drug was given”, third “the wrong dose was given”, fourth “a look alike or similar drug was given”。
Respondents’ dispensing error is related to: gender, age, marital status, work seniority, work function, work unit, work class, average hour of education, average frequency of looking up pharmaceutical information, work time, prescription of outpatient service, automedication machine, the rule of placing the drug, establish the unit of reporting error, deal with initiative reporter, and hospital level.
According to the above study, it would suggest: (1) the heads of pharmacy keep a closer tab on the younger less experienced pharmacists and be actively training these younger pharmacists to further their performance. (2) The way the drugs are sorted be changed from placing them alphabetically to placing them according to their pharmacology class. (3) Future researchers can add the standard questionnaire, and can consider expanding the object of study to local hospital and clinic pharmacist.
Subjects
藥師
調劑錯誤
pharmacist
dispensing error
Type
thesis
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