Risk assessment in clinical pharmacy

Medication error forms a major proportion of the errors in the medical system. Despite many studies of adverse drug events, there are no systematic ways of ensuring safety, or of assessing how safe a pharmaceutical system is. Risk assessment is required in hazardous industries such as nuclear power...

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Published inPharmacy world and science Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 98 - 103
Main Authors Hudson, Patrick T, Guchelaar, Henk-Jan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany Springer Nature B.V 01.06.2003
Subjects
Humans
Medication Errors - prevention & control
Pharmacy
Risk Assessment - methods
Risk Factors
Safety
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Summary:Medication error forms a major proportion of the errors in the medical system. Despite many studies of adverse drug events, there are no systematic ways of ensuring safety, or of assessing how safe a pharmaceutical system is. Risk assessment is required in hazardous industries such as nuclear power or oil and gas. Risk assessments involve identifying the defences and assessing their effectiveness and are relatively uncommon in clinical pharmacy, as opposed to reactive approaches involving incident analyses. Risk factors, that degrade barriers, can be identified and their effect measured. A risk assessment structure for pharmacy processes is proposed that can also be used to support incident investigation and analysis processes and provide a standard for audit.
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ISSN:0928-1231
2210-7703
2210-7711
DOI:10.1023/A:1024068817085