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.

Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
AgeNot listed
SponsorKathmandu University School of Medical Sciences

About this trial

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?"

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

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.

Disqualifiers

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.

Trial population

Healthcare professionals including Doctors, Nurses and Pharmacist who are working in Dhulikhel Hospital.

Trial design

Design model

Other

Time perspective

Cross-sectional

Treatments tested in this trial

  • medication errors reporting guidelines

    Other intervention

    the intervention is designed to reduce the medication errors and develop the culture of reporting the Medication errors in clinical settings.

Treatment groups

No treatment groups listed

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

reduction in Mediation error rate

The newly developed Medication errors reporting guidelines will be implemented and will be used to evaluate the reduction in medication errors incident rates.

Time frame
6 months after the implementation of the Medication errors reporting guidelines

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

Locations

This trial has no locations.

Sponsors and contacts

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