Prevalence and Associated Factors of Anesthetic Drug Administration Error, a Web Based Crossectional Survey, 2022.

DebreTabor University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Frequency of Anesthetics Drug Administration Error by Anesthetists

Treatments: Other: observation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05898282

DebreTaborU

Details and patient eligibility

About

The operating room (OR) is a demanding and time-constrained setting, in comparison to primary care settings, where perioperative medication administration is more complicated and there is a high risk that the patient will experience a medication error.

Without consulting the pharmacist or seeking assistance from other staff members, anesthesia clinicians prepare, deliver, and monitor strong anesthetic drugs.

Full description

The operating room (OR) is a demanding and time-constrained setting, in comparison to primary care settings, where perioperative medication administration is more complicated and there is a high risk that the patient will experience a medication error. Anesthesia clinicians prepare, deliver, and monitor strong anesthetic drugs without consulting pharmacists or seeking assistance from other staff members.

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of medication administration errors by anesthetists and associated factors in referral and teaching hospitals in the Amhara region of, Ethiopia.

Enrollment: 255 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all anesthetists with a minimum of six months of working experience, the ability to respond to the questionnaire using the listed online choices, and involvement in direct patient care to be included in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Anesthetists who were not involved in medication administration and those serving in administrative positions were excluded from the study.

Trial design

255 participants in 1 patient group

anesthesia professionals

Description:

anesthetists working at teaching and referral hospitals of north west Ethiopia

Treatment:

Other: observation