IJSRP, Volume 5, Issue 6, June 2015 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
Dr (Major) Shishir Basarkar
Abstract:
Objective : The ultimate goal of drug therapy is to achieve predetermind therapeutic outcomes which improves a patient’s quality of life while minimizing patient’s risks which may be known or unknown. The incidents and hazards which results from such risk have been defined as medication errors. The need of study of medication error was felt to study prevalence of medication errors, to estimate the present magnitude and sensitise concerned staff to prevent these errors.