Reporting and Learning Systems for Medication Errors and Pharmacovigilance Training Course

The fact that medical errors cost the nation a colossal $1 trillion each year is a major issue that needs to be addressed right away. A medical error is a preventable adverse effect of care, whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient. A 2013 report estimates up to 440,000 Americans are dying annually from preventable hospital and medical errors. Considering the fact that medical errors is the third leading cause of death in the United States underpins the need to improve safety for patients and make safety a priority. Establishing systems and learning from medication errors is a step in that direction and preventing medication errors. This course discussed how to collect, disseminate, analyze, learn and prevent or eliminate medication errors.

Upon completion of this course, you should walk away with:

• Identify the Root Causes of Medication Errors
• Examples of Medication errors
• Monitoring error
• Understanding Medication Error (ME), Adverse Drug Event (ADE) and Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR)
• Medication error reporting and learning systems
• Adverse Event Reporting Intelligence
• ICSRs as source of identifying medication errors
• Provide organizational learning from Medication errors
• Leveraging Tools and Skills to identify ME's from ADR reports
• Quantitative Analysis of Medication error reports
• Analysis by patient outcome
• Analysis by medication problem
• Analysis by therapeutic group or medicine
• Qualitative Analysis - Root Cause Analysis
• Human error
• Barriers to prevent medication errors
• Identify contributing factors to medication errors
• Identifying root causes
• Preventing medication errors
• Making the medication errors visible
• Strategies for reducing the incidents