Family Care Giver’s Knowledge and Practice Regarding The Medication Errors among Elderly People

Abstract

Medication errors refer to any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the healthcare professional, patient, or consumer. Such events may be related to professional practice, health care products, procedures, and systems, including prescribing; order communication; product labeling, packaging, and nomenclature; compounding; dispensing; distribution; administration; education; monitoring; and use.” However, there is no widely accepted uniform definition. Unfortunately, untoward medical errors and underreported medication errors result in significant morbidity and mortality. In order of frequency: medication errors, motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, AIDS, and medication errors. Consider that two of the most common causes of death are related to healthcare-related events( Zirpe KG, 2020) . Elderly’ is applied to those individuals belonging to