Evaluation of the Potential for Medication Error in Outpatient Elderly Patients at Siti Fatimah Az-Zahra Regional Hospital

Abstract

Medication error is an event or situation that can be prevented and avoided, but if drugs cannot be controlled it can lead to inappropriate or harmful use of drugs. Medication error is an error made unintentionally in prescribing (Prescribing), reading prescriptions (transcribing), preparing prescriptions (dispensing) and administration. The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of medication errors in the prescribing and transcribing phase in elderly patients. This study included descriptive observational research in a retrospective manner with purposive sampling method in the form of prescriptions of elderly patients at Siti Fatimah Az-Zahra Hospital Palembang. The results obtained in this study indicate that the occurrence of medication errors at the Prescribing stage, namely no prescription date 12%, no doctor's SIP 15%, no doctor's signature 10%, no dosage unit 35%, no amount of drug administration 3% and at the Transcribing stage, namely unclear / complete drug names 34%, unclear / complete drug doses 34% and unclear / complete drug amounts 3%.
 Keywords: medication error, prescribing, transcribing