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1.Who are required to report medication errors? Justify.
2. What is the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP) and its role in preventing medication error?
3. Attach a scientific journal about a case of medication error reporting, either national or international. Write a reflection about the results and conclusions of the study.
1) The ISMP National Medication Errors Reporting Program (ISMP MERP) is an internationally recognized program for healthcare professionals to share potential or actual medication errors that occurred at their workplace. Reporting an error or hazardous condition is simple and confidential.
2) According to the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error is "any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the healthcare professional, patient, or consumer,”
Role of NCC for preventing Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP) is to maximize the safe use of medications and to increase awareness of medication errors through open communication, increased reporting and promotion of medication error prevention strategies.
3) scientific journal about a case of medication error reporting are all types of studies that reported the incidence of medication errors or identified the causes of MEs, either in adults or children. All healthcare professionals have a responsibility in identifying contributing factors to medication errors and to use that information to further reduce their occurrence. Developing countries urgently need to introduce professional programmes to improve prescribing skills and knowledge of prescribers, and to encourage nurses to improve their quality of drug administration.
conclusion : We included all types of studies, i.e., randomized controlled trials, non-randomized controlled trials, longitudinal studies, cohort or casecontrol studies, and descriptive studies that reported the incidence of medication errors or identified the causes of MEs, either in adults or children.
Result: Prescribing errors many differences were found with regard to how the studies obtained and reported data. Most of the studies in Middle Eastern countries evaluated MEs during the prescribing stage. The reported incidence of prescribing errors in this review ranged from 7.1% to 68.2% of medication orders. A high rate of prescribing errors is known to be an international problem