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.

Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Prescription With Medication Errors

Treatments: Other: medication errors reporting guidelines

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07002606

PhD- 80/8 t-HS-04 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

147/24

Details and patient eligibility

About

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?"

Enrollment: 62 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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.