Sultan M Alshahrani1 
,
Khaled M Alakhali1,2,
Yaser Mohammed Al-Worafi3,4
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Accepted: 18 April 2019 Published: 31 May 2019
Citation: Alshahrani SM, Alakhali KM, Al-Worafi YM. Medication errors in a health care facility in southern Saudi Arabia. Trop J Pharm Res 2019; 18(5):1119-1122 doi: 10.4314/tjpr.v18i5.29
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Purpose: To identify medication errors at Aseer Central Hospital (ACH, Abha) in the southern province of Saudi Arabia.
Methods: A cross-sectional retrospective study was conducted by reviewing adult patients’ records (> 15 years old) at ACH’s inpatient and outpatients settings over an 8-week period in October and November 2015.
Results: We identified 113 medication errors, including 112 prescribing errors and 1 dispensing error. Most medication errors (91.2 %) in this study were for inpatient prescriptions. The most common prescribing error was medication duplication (31.2 %) followed by missing patient identifying information (25 %).
Conclusion: Medication errors, mainly in inpatient prescriptions, have been fully identified at ACH. Educational interventions such as workshops could help minimize and prevent medication errors.
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