Journal of Developing Drugs
Open Access
ISSN: 2329-6631
+44 1478 350008
ISSN: 2329-6631
+44 1478 350008
Mohammed Adel Mohammed Abdel Mohsen, Islam Abdo Mohammed Selim and Fatma Ibrahim Fathy
Al-Ahrar Zagazig Teaching Hospital, Egypt
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Develop Drugs
Aim: This work aims for observational study on medication errors in coronary care unit (O-MECCU) Background: Mediacation Errors in Coronary care unit were subjected to a Prospective observational study to assess the implications of the starting program of clinical pharmacy in Coronary Care Unit (CCU) in a teaching Hospital located in Egypt. Methods: The study observers recorded and categorized the medication errors that was reported by the Clinical Pharmacists to the phycians during daily rounds concerning 723 patients admitted to the Coronary Care Unit in 300 bed Teaching Hospital in Egypt from October 2014 till December 2015. Continious additional data is being collected Beyond this period for further analysis. Results: The observers detected that the clinically significant drug-drug interactions that influence therapeutic drug plans occured in (8.71%) of the patients while the percentages of over doses (18.86%), sub therapeutic doses (23.68%), adverse drug reactions (5.39%), contraindications (3.87%), drug without indications (16.87%), unnecessary antibiotic use (25.03%) and untreated indications (15.09%) from the total number of the patients in the study. In addition, the percentage of patients who have bee prescribed with the proper medication regimens without any medication error was (37.62%). Conclusion: The relatively icreased percentages of detected medication errors indicate that the prescence of the Clinical Pharmacist is important to decrease the prevailance of medication errors and helpes other healthcare team members to take better and safer medication therapy management desicion .
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