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Providing feedback to hospital doctors about prescribing errors; a pilot study.

Bryony Dean Franklin1, Kara O'Grady, Christos Paschalides

  • 1Academic Pharmacy Unit, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK. bdean@hhnt.nhs.uk

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Ward pharmacists can identify and report prescribing errors, with feedback being acceptable to medical staff. However, incident reports significantly under-report errors, necessitating focused data collection for routine feedback.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Practice
  • Patient Safety
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences

Background:

  • Prescribing errors are a significant concern in healthcare.
  • Accurate data on prescribing error rates is crucial for improving patient safety.
  • Current methods of reporting errors, such as incident databases, may be insufficient.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of collecting prescribing error data in routine clinical practice.
  • To assess the effectiveness of providing feedback on prescribing errors to medical staff.
  • To compare pharmacist-identified errors with those reported in incident databases.

Main Methods:

  • Ward pharmacists systematically recorded prescribing errors in new medication orders over eight data collection days.
  • Prescribing errors were also reviewed from the trust's medication incident database.
  • Feedback on error rates and types was presented to lead clinicians of 10 specialties.

Main Results:

  • A prescribing error rate of 9.2% was identified in 4,995 medication orders.
  • Pharmacists would have reported only 4% of identified errors as incidents.
  • Feedback on prescribing errors was well-received by lead clinicians.

Conclusions:

  • Systematic feedback of pharmacist-identified prescribing errors at the specialty level is feasible and acceptable.
  • Medication incident reporting significantly under-reports prescribing errors.
  • More targeted data collection is needed for routine feedback to individual prescribers or teams.