Types, trends, and patterns of the reported antimicrobial errors to the eastern region's medical centers in Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Medication errors (MEs) are a huge burden on any healthcare system and have been associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The medical literature reported heavily on MEs but lacked focus on analyzing high-risk medications such as antimicrobials.

Research design and methods

This was a retrospective analysis of the MEs database reported by the eastern region's medical centers in Saudi Arabia from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019. We used descriptive analysis to identify most common antimicrobials with errors, the stage of antimicrobial errors, type of the errors, contributing factors to the errors, and categories of errors based on the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC-MERP) classification of errors.

SUBMITTER: Aldayyen AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10102554 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature