Table 3 Drug error types and reasons
From: Drug-related problems and their clinical interventions in a Ghanaian teaching hospital
Error type | Reasons | Number |
|---|---|---|
Prescribing (n = 721) | Untreated indications | 174 |
Wrong dose prescribed | 127 | |
Wrong drug prescribed | 116 | |
Medicine interactions | 93 | |
Duplication of therapy | 84 | |
Contraindications | 78 | |
Side effects | 50 | |
Failure to stop order | 44 | |
Omitted lab test | 18 | |
Others | 15 | |
Dispensing/implementing (n = 20) | Wrong drug dispensed | 14 |
Wrong label | 5 | |
Others | 1 | |
Administering/patient receiving (n = 66) | Unavailability of drug | 19 |
Wrong dose administered | 16 | |
Duplication | 16 | |
Failure to discontinue | 7 | |
Others | 4 | |
Wrong drug administered | 3 | |
Wrong dosage form | 1 | |
Monitoring (n = 212) | Laboratory test omitted | 91 |
Blood glucose not monitored | 77 | |
Side effects not monitored | 40 | |
Others | 19 | |
Medicine-disease interactions not monitored | 16 | |
Culture and sensitivity omitted | 14 | |
BP not checked | 11 |