Percentage of Residents That Had a Prescribing Error
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Residential Aged Care
Country
Sri Lanka
Publishing Organisation
Prasana et al. (2020)
Type of Quality Indicator
Outcome
IOM Quality Dimension
Safety
Setting-Specific Domain
Medication-Related
Defining Attributes
Definition
Percentage of residents that had a prescribing error (including wrong medicine, prescribing duplications, unacceptable medicine combinations, clinically significant medicine interactions, potentially ADR, unnecessary medicine, medicine omissions wrong dose, wrong frequency, wrong duration, wrong dosage form)
Numerator
Residents with at least one prescribing error
Denominator
Total number of residents
Exclusions
None
Use of Risk Adjustment
No
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
None
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Reporting Frequency
Reporting Frequency in Days
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
No
Source and Reference Attributes
Evidence Source
Prasanna, S. M. S., Cader, T. S. B., Sabalingam, S., Shanika, L. G. T. & Samaranayake, N. R. Are medications safely used by residents in elderly care homes? – A multi-centre observational study from Sri Lanka. PLOS ONE 15, e0233486 (2020).
Technical Specifications
Link to Measurement Tools
Domain
Not Assigned
Quality Indicator Confirmed to be Part of a Program Used to Monitor Quality and Safety of Care Among Older People at a Population-Level between 2012-2022
No
Assessed by the Australian Consortium for Aged Care Collaborators as Generally Containing Good Properties (Importance and Scientific Acceptability)
No
Australian Consortium for Aged Care Endorsed
No
Can the Quality Indicator be Readily Implemented at a Population Level in Australia Given its Current Data Landscape?
Implementation of this quality indicator was not assessed.
Identified by PHARMA-Care Project
Yes
Upload Date
23 July 2025
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Date Modified 11 June 2026