Will the veterans at the VA Outpatient clinic have fewer medication errors with the implementation of a barcode medication administration system, compared to not using barcode the medication system, which will result in decreased medication error rate over a period of a year. This is the question that will be presented in this research proposal.
Medication errors occur daily and are steadily on a rise. According to Seibert (2014), adverse drug event has risen to 450, 000 annually from medication errors that resulted in injury, of which approximately 25% are preventable. Medication errors occur for many reasons. Common medication errors include prescribing errors, wrong drug, wrong dosage, incorrect calculation, overdosing, illegible handwriting,
Medication errors occur daily and are steadily on a rise. According to Seibert (2014), adverse drug event has risen to 450, 000 annually from medication errors that resulted in injury, of which approximately 25% are preventable. Medication errors occur for many reasons. Common medication errors include prescribing errors, wrong drug, wrong dosage, incorrect calculation, overdosing, illegible handwriting,