Medication errors Flashcards
1
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Where do medication errors occur?
A
- Care homes
- Primary care
- Secondary care
2
Q
Why do medication errrors occur?
A
- Administration
- Prescribing
- Dispensing
- Monitoring
- Transitioning between medicines
3
Q
NHS patient safety strategy
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- Insight
- Involvement
- Improvement
4
Q
Insight
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- Measurement
- Incident response
- Medical examiners
- Alerts
- Litigation
5
Q
Involvement
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- Patient safety partners
- Curriculum and training
- Specialists
- Safety II
6
Q
Improvement
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Improvement programmes to enable effective and sustainable change in the most important areas
7
Q
Reactive approach
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- After the event
- Report/record incidents/patient safety events
- MHRA – Yellow Card reporting
8
Q
Reporting incidents - HCP
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- Record on their local risk management systems (LRMS).
- LFSE is a new approach being trialled.
9
Q
LFSE
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- Learn from patient safety events
- Central service for recording and analysis of patient safety events that occur.
- In the final stages of development
10
Q
Root cause analysis (RCA)
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- Evidence-based, structured investigation
- Identify cause of incident, and actions needed to prevent it happening again.
- Understand what, why and how a system failed
11
Q
RCA process
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- Identify incident
- Gather information & map incident
- Identify care & service delivery problems
- Analyse problems & identify CFs and RCs
- Generate solutions & recommendations
- Implement solutions
- Write the report
12
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Disadvantages of RCA
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- Simplistic
- Typically completed with very limited resources and time frame.
- Does it take a systems approach?
