Medikacijske pogreške

Professional paper - Professional paper

• Author: Vesna Bačić-Vrca
• Author: Velimir Božikov
• Author: Mira Bećirević-Laćan
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry; (Department of pharmaceutical technology)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE; Pharmacy; Pharmacy

Abstract (english)

Drug therapy is becoming more complex. The patients need more potent
and more sophisticated drug therapy. To ensure safe medication use, health
professionals must be aware of the drug administration.
A medication error may be defined as an unintended act (either of omission or commission) or as an act that does not achieve its intended outcome.
Some common causes of medication errors are: lack of the knowledge of the
drugs, lack of information about the patients, failed communication, poor
drug distribution practices, dose miscalculation, incorrect drug administration, lack of patient education. In all cases, the causes are multifactorial, cutting across many lines of responsibility.
Although, a few drugs have a high risk of causing injury when they are
misused. This high-alert drugs can be targeted for specific error reduction interventions. The paper also suggests many actions that pharmacist can take
to reduce or eliminate medication errors. Developing internal systems for reporting and tracking errors is the first step toward identifying problems.

• Keywords (croatian): medikacijske pogreške; nuspojave lijekova; interakcije lijekova
• Language: croatian
• Publication type: Professional paper - Professional paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - domestic
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Farmaceutski glasnik
• Numbering: vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 133-141
• p-ISSN: 0014-8202
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:163:193405
• Publication: 2004
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2020-11-20 10:13:26