Medication safety in a psychiatric hospital

Adverse drug reactions: a retrospective review of hospitalized psychiatric patients at tertiary care hospital

“…In our study most of the ADRs are not preventable and this is in accordance with Rothschild JM et al 17 We have seen from patient"s data that majority of the ADRs (73.26%) observed by us were mild in nature in severity scale. Lucca CA et al, which is not as supportive to study reported that 86% of the ADRs in their study were made up of "moderate" and 12.5% of ADRs in "severe" categories in Modified Hartwig and Siegel.…”

“…A number of authors have reported the same observations in Lucca JM et al and Rothschild JM et al study. 14,17 We have further observed from patient"s data that Antipsychotic agents 41 (56.94%) followed by drugs of antidepressant 11 (15.27%) and drugs of mod stabilizer 11 (15.27%) are a frequent cause of adverse drug reactions. Most of the other studies like Luppa CA et al Kuruvilla A et al and Rothschild J m el al have reported Antipsychotic is most common drug class for ADRs.…”

“…Shah LP et al 7,15 Study reported that mean age of the patients who developed ADR was 34.8 years. Lucca JM et al study shows that mean age of the patients who developed ADR was 34.5 years Rothschild JM et al 14,17 study shows that mean age of the patients was 43.4 years. Our study has provided a further support to this observation.…”

Medication errors in older people with mental health problems: a review

“…Three studies met eight criteria (Stubbs et al, 2004;Haw et al, 2005Haw et al, , 2007, and one each met ten (Rothschild et al, 2007), nine (Stubbs et al, 2006), seven (Ito and Yamazumi, 2003), six (Nirodi and Mitchell, 2002) and five criteria (Maidment and Thorn, 2005). The studies most frequently failed on validity measures (n ¼ 6) and error categories defined (n ¼ 5) criteria.…”

“…Two used prospective identification of prescribing errors by pharmacists (Stubbs et al, 2004(Stubbs et al, , 2006, and one used retrospective review (Nirodi and Mitchell, 2002). Two were based on prospective observation (Haw et al, 2007;Rothschild et al, 2007). Most studies focused primarily on inpatients; only three of the 728 errors related to the community where most patients receive treatment (Stubbs et al, 2006).…”