Medication safety & Quality

Question 1

Adverse drug event

Answer 1

Injuries resulting from the use of a drug, which include harm caused by the drug (ADRs and
overdoses) e.g. patient on lisinopril normal dose who develops angioedema requiring tracheostomy

Question 2

Medication errors

Answer 2

Mishaps that occur during reconciling, prescribing/ordering, transcribing, dispensing, administering, or monitoring a drug

Question 3

Adverse drug reaction

Answer 3

any response to a drug which noxious and unintended during the use of normal doses in treatment or prophylaxis

Question 4

Preventable Adverse drug events

Answer 4

a medication error that reached the patient and resulted in harm e.g. Entering a high dose of drug in the infusion pump that resulted in patient having an organ dysfunction

Question 5

What is best node to monitor and target medication errors

Answer 5

Medication administration

Question 6

Potential adverse drug event

Answer 6

when patient is given the wrong drug : e.g. Cefazolin instead of cefepime which will result in worsening infection and potential injury to patient