There were 738 patients harmed in medication-related incidents in HSE services last year, according to new figures.<\/p>\n
Of those, 732 cases were listed as causing minor or moderate harm while six were determined to be extreme.<\/p>\n
A total of 10,400 medicine-related incidents, or near misses, were recorded.<\/p>\n
More than 7,150 incidents reached a patient but with no harm, or negligible harm.<\/p>\n
Over 2,540 were classified as near misses, meaning they did not reach a patient.<\/p>\n
A medication incident is a preventable event which may result in a patient being harmed while medication is in the control of a healthcare professional.<\/p>\n
The details are contained in an HSE response to a parliamentary question from Aont\u00fa leader, Peadar T\u00f3ib\u00edn.<\/p>\n
State Claims Agency data shows that the most common medication incident was an omitted or delayed medication dose.<\/p>\n
The public health service deals with around two million inpatient and day case treatments every year and almost the same number of emergency department cases.<\/p>\n
The HSE said that its Patient Safety Strategy includes reducing medication-related harm as one of the common causes of harm, a priority area for safety improvement.<\/p>\n
It said that improvements are introduced on a local, regional and national basis in order to reduce the risk of harm with medication.<\/p>\n
The HSE said that a Polypharmacy key performance indicator was introduced this year.<\/p>\n
It tracks the proportion of people aged 65 years and older prescribed ten or more regular medications, as an indicator of an increased likelihood of potentially inappropriate medication.<\/p>\n
The Health Information and Quality Authority conducts inspections in public hospitals to improve patient safety in relation to medication use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were 738 patients harmed in medication-related incidents in HSE services last year, according to new figures. Of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,84,377],"class_list":["post-649079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}