The General Objective of This Study is to Monitor, Assess, and Prevent the Potential Medication Errors Among Inpatients in the Tertiary Healthcare Facility of Nepal. This Study Aims to Develop and Implement the Medication Errors Reporting System in Hospital Settings.

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Prescription With Medication Errors

• Registration Number: NCT07002606
• Lead Sponsor: Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences

Brief Summary

The goal of this observational study is to develop and implement Medication errors reporting system using the error reporting guidelines. The main question it aims to answer is:

"Does development and implementation of Medication errors reporting guideline will help to reduce the errors rate and improve the patient safety?"

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2025-05
• Study First Submitted: 2025-05-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2025-05-25
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-05-25
• Study First Posted: 2025-06-03
• Last Update Posted: 2025-06-03
• Study Start: 2025-07-01
• Primary Completion: 2026-04-01
• Study Completion: 2027-04-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 62

Inclusion Criteria

• For the quantitative part, the inclusion criteria are patients of all age groups and prescriptions issued to inpatients.
• For the qualitative part of the study, inclusion criteria are healthcare professionals aged more than 18 years working in Dhulikhel Hospital.

Exclusion criteria:

• The exclusion criteria will be incomplete and unclear prescriptions.
• The healthcare persons who accepted the consent but couldn't complete the survey will be excluded from the study.

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
reduction in Mediation error rate	6 months after the implementation of the Medication errors reporting guidelines	The newly developed Medication errors reporting guidelines will be implemented and will be used to evaluate the reduction in medication errors incident rates.