This represented 1.2% of barcode medication administration episodes.
Typically each resident was receiving nine different drugs and was exposed to 206 medication administration episodes every month.
During the study period, residents were exposed to a total of 213,220 separate medication administration episodes, equivalent to 206 per resident each month.
The intervention's protocols that are used in the GAU target pressure ulcers (78%), nosocomial infections (78%), errors in medication administration (73%), episodes of constipation (72%), use of restraints (66%), pain (38%), falls/fractures (34%), urinary incontinence (34%), immobility (14%), and delirium (8%).
Medical services included primary medical care, psychiatric assessment, therapy and medication administration.
The screening or preventive protocols that are used in the GAU concern nosocomial infections (81%), pressure ulcers (77%), use of restraints (59%), episodes of constipation (58%), errors in medication administration (53%), falls/fractures (50%), pain (33%), urinary incontinence (27%), immobility (17%), and delirium (11%).
The level of compliance was estimated in terms of the number of deviations from medication as prescribed (see above) versus the total number of administration episodes.
From 87 medication administration interventions which were given at medical unit, 42 (47.2 %) had medication administration error and also in emergency ward from 12 observed medications, all of it had medication administration error.
The carer realised the error when she belatedly read the medication administration sheet.
Associated problems include medication administration errors and poor compliance.
Adverse patient events are frequently associated with medication administration errors.
