Question

Most medication errors involve:

incorrect dose.

incorrect patient.

incorrect drug.

incorrect route

Answer 1

The answer is a) incorrect  dose

Medication error is defined as the error or mistakes in prescribing , compounding and dispensing of drug.

According to National Coordinating Council for Medication error Reporting and prevention, Medication error is defined as 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.

One study shows that medication errors were due to administering improper dose (41%), overdose(36%), wrong drug( 19%) and wrong route of administration( 10%).

Here the possession is more for improper dose.

Prescription medications have more serious dangers associated with them than over the counter drugs. Therefore it is important that phramacist issue the correct drug at the correct dose. These mistakes can also cause serious medical complications either because you take too much or too little of a drug or even taking the wrong drug.

All options are correct and are types of medication errors. But the most common among them is incorrect dose.