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Related Basel Statements:
• 8. Hospital pharmacists should monitor patients taking medicines to assure patient safety, appropriate medicine use, and optimal outcomes for inpatients and outpatients. When resource limitations do not permit pharmacist monitoring of all patients taking medicines, patient selection criteria should be established to guide pharmacist monitoring.
• 39. Hospital pharmacists should develop simple, rules-based approaches to advancing patient safety; for example, when a large number of dosage units are needed to give a dose (more than two tablets, vials, etc.), the prescription should be verified prior to preparation or dispensing.
• 40. Hospital pharmacists should ensure that the information resources needed for safe medicines preparation and administration are accessible at the point of care.
• 46. Hospital pharmacists should develop and implement policies and practices that prevent route errors.
• 51. An easily accessible, non-punitive reporting system for medication errors, including near misses, should be established and maintained. Reports of medication errors should be reviewed internally and sent to regional or national medication error reporting or regulatory programs. These data should be regularly reviewed to improve the quality and safety of medicines use practices.
Presenter(s):
John B. Hertig: Purdue University, United States
Abdul Latif Sheikh: President, Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Pakistan
Jacqueline Surugue: Past President of FIP Hospital Section
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Hospital Pharmacy Section
