Percentage of Residents That Had at Least One Dispensing Error
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Setting-Specific Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Percentage of residents that had at least one dispensing error, measured as Is a discrepancy between a prescription and the dispensing label dispensed with the relevant medicines by the pharmacy and dispensing of medicines with inferior pharmaceutical or informational quality (includes wrong name, wrong or missing dose, wrong or missing frequency, wrong or missing duration, wrong or missing dosage form wrong or missing the total number of units dispensed, wrong or missing essential directions to use medicines on a dispensing label)
Numerator
Resident with at least one medication with dispensing error
Denominator
Total number of residents
Exclusions
None
Use of Risk Adjustment
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
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).