Improving medication safety in the perioperative setting: development of a medication use process.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medication errors are highly prevalent in the perioperative setting. The objectives of this study were to re-engineer the medication use process in the perioperative setting and to draft safety recommendations to improve safe medication use in daily practice.

Methods

A group coordinated by medical centre management and composed of pharmacists, surgeons, anaesthesiologists, nurses, and information technicians was formed in 2020. A failure mode and effects analysis was performed to assess the perioperative use of drugs in surgical patients from preadmission to discharge, and 25 failure modes were identified. A bibliographic review was carried out to detect and prioritise safety strategies according to the failure modes detected. The risk priority number was calculat

SUBMITTER: Ribed A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12674038 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature