Timely detected medication error: Prescribing or dispensing?
Divya Goel1★, Sanjay Gupta2★ Corresponding author
- 1Department of Pharmacology, MMIMSR, Mullana, Ambala, India.
- 2Department of Surgery, GMCH, Chandigarh, India.
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Divya Goel
Department of Pharmacology, MMIMSR, Mullana, Ambala, India.
Volume 2, Issue 4 · pp. 292–293 · PUBLISHED 2011 · DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.85953
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Medication error is failure in the treatment process that leads to or has the potential to harm the patient.[1] The treatment process encompasses all spectrum of medical care, i.e., diagnosis, treatment as well as prevention of disease. It also includes manufacturing or compounding, prescribing, transcribing, dispensing, and administration of a drug and the monitoring of its effect. Error in any of the component of the treatment process can lead to either the adverse event or the treatment failure.[2] This error arises when action is intended but not performed either due to poor planning because of inadequate knowledge, or because of imperfect execution of a well-formulated plan because of negligence.
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Goel, D., & Gupta, S. (2011). Timely detected medication error: Prescribing or dispensing?. Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics, 2(4), 292–293. https://doi.org/10.4103/0976-500X.85953