The General Objective of This Study is to Monitor, Assess, and Prevent the Potential Medication Errors Among Inpatients in the Tertiary Healthcare Facility of Nepal. This Study Aims to Develop and Implement the Medication Errors Reporting System in Hospital Settings.
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In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: medication errors reporting guidelines.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Prescription With Medication Errors. Basic parameters: No limits · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Monitoring, Assessment, and Prevention of Potential Medication Errors in the Tertiary Healthcare Facility of Nepal: A Mixed-method Study
Overview
The goal of this observational study is to develop and implement Medication errors reporting system using the error reporting guidelines. The main question it aims to answer is: "Does development and implementation of Medication errors reporting guideline will help to reduce the errors rate and improve the patient safety?"
Interventions
- Other medication errors reporting guidelines
the intervention is designed to reduce the medication errors and develop the culture of reporting the Medication errors in clinical settings.
Primary outcome measures
- reduction in Mediation error rate [Time frame: 6 months after the implementation of the Medication errors reporting guidelines]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- For the quantitative part, the inclusion criteria are patients of all age groups and prescriptions issued to inpatients.
- For the qualitative part of the study, inclusion criteria are healthcare professionals aged more than 18 years working in Dhulikhel Hospital.
Exclusion criteria
- The exclusion criteria will be incomplete and unclear prescriptions.
- The healthcare persons who accepted the consent but couldn't complete the survey will be excluded from the study.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Other
Study locations
Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07002606 · 147/24 · PhD- 80/8 t-HS-04