Application and Practice of Risk Managements Analysis Methods in Medication Error Prevention in Medi-cal Institutions / 中国药师

ABSTRACT

Medication safety is one of patient safety goals, and medication error prevention is its main content. Risk managements such as hazard analysis and critical control points ( HACCP) and failure mode and effect analysis ( FMEA) with a lot of applications in health care field have a proper condition to be used for medication error prevention. A risk management was carried out for medication error prevention through the design and practice in our hospital, which contained the following 7 steps:the medication error prevention project was determined, the management team was made up, the links of medication and types of medication errors were confirmed, the critical control points were determined by using HACCP, the critical control points were analyzed by using FMEA, the links with high scores were performed improvement in prevention plan, and the improvement plan was applied and evaluated. The results showed the risk management used in medication error prevention is flexible and practical, which is especially suitable for the risk management for high-alter drugs.