Medication error definition

Medication error means any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm, while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer. Such events may be related to professional practice, health care products, procedures, and systems including, but not limited to: prescribing; order communication; product labeling, packaging and nomenclature; compounding; dispensing; distribution; administration; education; monitoring; and use.

Medication error means an error in administering a medication to an individual and includes when any of the following occur: (i) the wrong medication is given to an individual, (ii) the wrong individual is given the medication, (iii) the wrong dosage is given to an individual, (iv) medication is given to an individual at the wrong time or not at all, or (v) the wrong method is used to give the medication to the individual.

Medication error means failure to administer medication to a child, or failure to administer medication within one (1) hour of the time designated by the prescribing practitioner, or failure to administer the specific medication prescribed for a child, or failure to administer the medication by the correct route or failure to administer the medication according to generally accepted medical practices or failure to administer the correct dosage of medication;

Examples of Medication error in a sentence

• Medical Treatment Due to Injury or Medication Error: Type of injury will include a subcategory for reporting injuries that resulted from the use of restrictive interventions; Hospitalization due to Injury or Medication Error: Type of injury will include a subcategory for reporting injuries that resulted from the use of restrictive interventions.

• Medication errors were defined by the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP).

• Medication errors will be documented on the Medication Error Review Form.

• All completed Medication Error Reports must include the name of the staff(s) that apparently made the error.

• Critical Incidents are defined as the following events: Suicide; non-suicide death; arrest of consumer; emergency medical treatment due to injury or medication error, including injuries resulting from the use of physical management; hospitalization due to Injury or Medication Error, including hospitalization resulting from the use of physical management.

More Definitions of Medication error

Medication error means an error in prescribing, dispensing or administration of medication, regardless if the error reached the consumer, e.g., omission of prescribed drugs, giving drugs not prescribed, prescribing inappropriate drugs, prescribing or administering incorrect dosages, incorrectly filling or labeling prescriptions, incorrectly transcribing medication orders.

Medication error means engaging in any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the UAP.

Medication error means the administration of any medication incorrectly, e.g., dosage, selection of drug, selection of resident, time or method of administration, omission of prescribed medication, error in documentation or the administration of a medication without a valid order.

Medication error means the loss of medication, unavailability of medication, falsification of medication logs, theft of medication, missed doses of medication, incorrect medications administered, incorrect doses of medication, incorrect time of administration, incorrect method of administration, and the discovery of an unlocked medication container that is always supposed to be locked.

Medication error means any unintended variation from a prescription or medication order. Medication error does not include any variation that is corrected before the medication is dispensed to the patient or patient’s care-giver, or any variation allowed by law.

Medication error means the failure to administer an epinephrine auto-injector to a student or individual by proper route, failure to administer the correct dosage, or failure to administer an epinephrine auto-injector, bronchodilator, or bronchodilator canister and spacer according to generally accepted standards of practice.

Medication error means medication that is administered or dispensed to a client in a dose that is higher or lower, with greater or lesser frequency, or that is the wrong medication than that which is prescribed under a physician’s order and has the potential to harm the patient.