Search Tag: Medication Safety
2024 09 Dec
The dynamic nature of healthcare demands innovation and adaptability, particularly in pharmacy management. Decentralised care delivery, increasing operational complexity and economic pressures challenge pharmacy leaders to optimise resources while maintaining safety, compliance and efficiency. By embracing medication intelligence systems and advanced...Read more
2024 11 Nov
The adoption of computerised provider order entry (CPOE) systems in healthcare has brought substantial improvements to medication safety, reducing errors associated with manual prescribing. However, these systems are not without flaws. Technology-related errors (TREs) in CPOE systems can undermine safety efforts, particularly when they disrupt...Read more
2022 05 Sep
Medication error has been defined as “a reduction in the probability of treatment being timely and effective, or an increase in the risk of harm relating to medicines and prescribing compared with generally accepted practice” (WHO, 2016; 4). Serious medication errors lead to undesirable outcomes, including but not limited to poor quality of life,...Read more
2022 05 Sep
World Patient Safety Day is a global public health day that takes place every year on September 17. The objective is to bring together all stakeholders within the healthcare system to raise awareness surrounding patient safety. This year’s chosen theme is medication safety . Today, there are thousands of medications used to prevent and treat...Read more
2019 22 May
Eighteen Actionable Patient Safety Solutions are the key to zero preventable patient deaths in our hospitals. What are the patient safety processes that every hospital administrator and healthcare professional should adopt today to avoid preventable patient harm and death in hospitals? It’s an unfortunate fact of the medical profession...Read more