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NCT Number: NCT07002606

The General Objective of This Study is to Monitor, Assess, and Prevent the Potential Medication Errors Among Inpatients in the Tertiary Healthcare Facility of Nepal. This Study Aims to Develop and Implement the Medication Errors Reporting System in Hospital Settings.

The goal of this observational study is to develop and implement Medication errors reporting system using the error reporting guidelines. The main question it aims to answer is:

"Does development and implementation of Medication errors reporting guideline will help to reduce the errors rate and improve the patient safety?"

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Key information

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • For the quantitative part, the inclusion criteria are patients of all age groups and prescriptions issued to inpatients.
  • For the qualitative part of the study, inclusion criteria are healthcare professionals aged more than 18 years working in Dhulikhel Hospital.

Exclusion criteria

  • The exclusion criteria will be incomplete and unclear prescriptions.
  • The healthcare persons who accepted the consent but couldn't complete the survey will be excluded from the study.

Treatment and study plan

medication errors reporting guidelines

Other

the intervention is designed to reduce the medication errors and develop the culture of reporting the Medication errors in clinical settings.

Primary outcomes

  1. reduction in Mediation error rate

    Time frame: 6 months after the implementation of the Medication errors reporting guidelines

    The newly developed Medication errors reporting guidelines will be implemented and will be used to evaluate the reduction in medication errors incident rates.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Rudip Thapa Assistant Professor, M.Sc. (Medical) Pharmacology

CONTACT

[email protected]

+9779851218678

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Monitoring, Assessment, and Prevention of Potential Medication Errors in the Tertiary Healthcare Facility of Nepal: A Mixed-method Study

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2027
First posted
Jun 3, 2025
Registry last updated
Jun 3, 2025

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