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Intravenous Medication Preparation And Administration Errors At Medical Ward Of Ambo University Referral Hospital West Shoa, Oromia, Ethiopia

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Background: IV therapy is consisted of a set of processes that should be strictly observed before administration to the patients. Accordingly, errors incurred during any of these processes complicate the overall patient management and can even result in complications including death. Objective: This study intended to identify the prevalence of IV medications preparation and administration errors in the medical ward of Ambo University Referral Hospital.Setting: The study was conducted in Ambo University Referral Hospital, Ambo town, West Shoa zone, Oromia regional state which is located at 126 km to the west of Addis Ababa. It has more than 250 beds with different department and wards.Main outcome measure: The main outcome measures in this study were the occurrence of IV medication preparation and administration related errors.Methods: observational study design was conducted in May 2018 in Ambo University Referral Hospital. The data was collected by Chart Review method. This study included all the hospitalized patients treated by IV medication taken in medical ward during the study. The collected data was analyzed with SPSS software.Results: A total of 72 patients were studied, 58(80.6%) patients were exposed to administration error and this type of error was the most frequently encountered error followed by preparation error which occurred among 20(27.8%) patients and the smallest number of patients 4(5.6%) were exposed to pre-preparation error. Wrong administration time was the dominant cause of IV ME. High Prevalence of IV medication errors have seen during administration.Conclusion: The current study identified a high prevalence of different categories of IV medication errors during the study period. Administration errors covered the majority of the errors. In administration errors, wrong administration time were mostly the dominant errors and pre-preparation error was the least committed error.

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