Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Tips To Prevent Medication Errors



by Tofan Afandhi
Doctor have provided education and experience in writing prescriptions for drugs choose the right patient is expected to decrease the pain, treat injured patients or patients can be cured from the disease. Unfortunately, doctors are also human so there is likely an error occurred in prescription or medicine so that the election result in certain effects that can be experienced by the patient began to light the effect even in death the patient. Cases such as this has been happening in our lives.
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Indeed, most patients do not understand, and understand about prescripton, but there are several things that can be done by a patient so that they can ensure that treatment has to get right. Education and communication is important is owned by the patient or family to avoid errors in medical care.

Steps that patients can be done include:

• Always provide information to doctors about the medical care that has been done before and medicines that have been consumed.

• Inform the doctor if there are certain drugs that have been consumed to give that side effects that disrupt or cause allergies.

• Inform the doctor about your identity such as age, body weight. This doctor used to determine the appropriate dose for you so that you can avoid excessive doses of drugs or doses that are less.

• Ask your doctor about medicines that you will drink, saping possible effects of alternative medicine occurred and if side effects occur.

• Make sure the prescription written by a doctor can be read by the pharmacist. Because many drug names are similar, if read errors occur it can cause the wrong drug taken.

• Make sure your pharmacist immediate communication with the docter write a prescription if in doubt with the type of medication or dose in a written prescription.

• Make sure you read the label on the packaging of drugs will be drunk so that they can know the medicine is given, uses and doses that will be drunk.

• Immediately contact your doctor if the medicine is to drink after you feel more pain, suspect there is something wrong, or new symptoms develop.

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