Open AccessSTUDY OF MEDICATION ERRORS BY PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL APPROACH IN WARANGAL HOSPITALS
Author(s) -
Shivani Ravula,
Akhila Janga,
Rajasekhar Poonuru
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
asian journal of pharmaceutical and clinical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2455-3891
pISSN - 0974-2441
DOI - 10.22159/ajpcr.2020.v13i6.37046
Subject(s) - observational study , medicine , prospective cohort study , emergency medicine , pediatrics
Objective: The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of medication errors occurring in a multispecialty hospital in Warangal.
Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted in Rohini Superspeciality Hospital, Hanamkonda, Warangal, from October 2018 to March 2019, to study the prevalence of medication errors.
Results: In this study, 500 patients were selected, of which 160 were identified with medication errors. Two hundred and seventy-one medication errors were identified among these patients, of which 100 (60.63%) patients were male and 24.37% of patients were female.
Conclusion: This present study manifests that medication errors were predominate in males than in females and also the common age group was 50–60 years.