Internal medicine journal
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Internal medicine journal · Mar 2021
Reducing medication errors for hospital inpatients with Parkinsonism.
Patients with Parkinsonism are 1.5 times more likely than comparators to be hospitalised and have a significantly longer length of stay in hospital. Medication delays, inappropriate medication omission, and administration of contraindicated medications likely contribute to these poor outcomes. Education and hospital system interventions may reduce these errors. ⋯ There was a high in-hospital medication error rate for Parkinsonian patients. The intervention resulted in a statistically significantly improvement in the medication error rate. The estimated reductions in complication rate and length of stay may be clinically important. Similar interventions may be beneficial in other institutions.