del Rey-Pineda E, Estrada-Hernández LO

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Background: Pharmacists play a fundamental role in multidisciplinary team that provides health care to patients, both primary and special ized care, since pharmacist specializes in drugs management. In hospitals, pharmacists are able to follow up pharmacotherapy outcomes, and analyzing the whole medication use process in order to identify medication errors.
Objective: To identify, quantify and classify medication errors found in medical records of a Hospital Regional Lic. Adolfo Lopez Mateos, Mexico City.
Material and method: A retrospective study was performed reviewing medical prescriptions done during 2012 and those available of 2013, found in the files of all patients attending to consultation at Preventive Medicine Unit of Regional Hospital Lic. Adolfo Lopez Mateos, ISSSTE, from April 2 to June 28, 2013.
Results: We identified 686 medication errors, 84.3% (578) were found in hospitalization management and 15.7% (108) in outpatient management. Drugs classes mainly involved in medication errors were: antibiotics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and antihypertensive drugs.
Conclusions: It is evident the need of participation of health professionals trained in the hospitalary pharmacy field who colaborate with the team of medical care in order to detect, correct and avoid the medication errors, real or potential, occuring in the daily practice.

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