Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To strengthen the prospective and systematic prevention of medication errors in pharmacy intravenous admixture services(PIVAS) and to ensure the safety of medication for patients.
METHODS The failure mode and effects analysis(FMEA) and failure mode, impacts and criticality analysis(FMECA) risk management methods were used to analyze the hazards of failure modes. The nine moderate-risk failure modes with high risk priority number(RPN) values were improved and evaluated.
RESULTS The nine moderate-risk failure modes which were preferentially improved reduced to three, with a total decrease of 116 RPN values, a decrease rate of 52.25%. In addition to the indication errors, the incidence of medication errors in other failure modes was significantly reduced(
P<0.05), and the medication errors in PIVAS were effectively controlled.
CONCLUSION PIVAS shall focus on preventing violation of aseptic practices. FMEA and FMECA are quality management tools which are suitable for the prevention of medication errors of intravenous medications.