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DRUG ADMINISTRATION AUDIT
Author(s) -
Bailie G. R.,
Campbell Marie E.,
Kesson C. M.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.622
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2710
pISSN - 0269-4727
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2710.1981.tb01005.x
Subject(s) - medicine , medical prescription , audit , incidence (geometry) , drug administration , administration (probate law) , general hospital , drug , medication error , medical audit , emergency medicine , medical emergency , pediatrics , pharmacology , patient safety , health care , business , accounting , physics , political science , law , optics , economics , economic growth
SUMMARY Drug surveillance has demonstrated that inaccuracy of variable degree exists in medicine administration in hospital practice. Brooks et al . (1) found a 53%—67% incidence of dispensing errors in a study of forty general medical inpatients, but in a larger study of over seven thousand prescriptions to hospital patients, Tesh et al . (2) found only a 3% incidence of error in drug administration. Since 1974 the Aberdeen system (3), designed to reduce dispensing errors, has been used in our hospital. As an elementary effort in medical audit a study of drug administration in a general medical ward was undertaken to determine the current incidence of error.