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Abstract
Medication errors can result in preventable adverse drug events, leading to patient harm and significant financial costs. The medication use process comprises several stages, such as prescription, transcription, preparation, dispensing, and administration.
The risk of medication errors rises by 30% in patients prescribed five or more drugs and by 38% in individuals aged 75 years or older. Medication-related admissions are twice as common in older patients compared to younger ones.
Improving medication safety involves optimizing the medication process’s safety, addressing situational risk factors, and implementing strategies to intercept errors and mitigate their consequences. Interventions, including both technological and non-technological approaches such as sensitization programs, have been proven to reduce medical errors in the ICU.
The involvement of clinical pharmacists in critical care units is instrumental in preventing over half of all errors, including 72% of potentially harmful errors.
Critically ill patients admitted to an Intensive Care Unit encounter an average of 1.7 medical errors per day, with medication errors constituting 78% of such incidents. To decrease the incidence and increase reporting rates to the hospital system, every effort should be made to identify the root causes and try to fix them.