The document discusses medication reconciliation and medication errors. It provides statistics that 43% of additional drugs were found during medication reconciliation, 34% found no drugs, and 23% found different drugs. It notes that medication errors harm an estimated 1.5 million people every year, costing at least $3.5 billion. The document advocates ensuring the five rights of medication administration and awareness of preventable harm from medication errors.

1. Additional drugs found
43%
No drugs found
34%
23%
MEDICATION
RECONCILIATION
ENSURE 5 RIGHTS OF
MEDICATION
ADMINISTRATION
SAFE AND EFFECTIVE
MEDICATION FOR ALL
"The person who takes medicine must recover twice ,
once from the disease and once from the medicine"
Prescribed drugs
DO YOU EVER CHECK YOUR
PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS TO
MAKE SURE THEY'RE NOT
COUNTERFEIT ?
'Medication error harms an estimated 1.5 million
people every year , costing at least USD 3.5 billion'
AWARENESS COUNSELLING
C H E T N A K A U S H I K
D E L H I P H A R M A C E U T I C A L S C I E N C E S A N D R E S E A R C H U N I V E R S I T Y
( E S T A B L I S H E D U N D E R A C T 0 7 O F 2 0 0 8 , G O V T . O F N C T O F D E L H I )
Different drugs
found
'6000 deaths due to
avoidable drug reactions
occur because of
medical errors each
year'
PREVENTABLE
HARM
M
EDICATION
ERROR
NO
HARM
ADVERSE
DRUG
EVEN
TS
N
ON
PREVEN
TABLE
HARM
DICLOFENAC
22.2% 17.1% 6%9.1%10.5%6.7%
CEFTRIAXINCHLOROQUINEMAGNESIUM SULFATE NIFEDIPINEQUININE
% ADE OF TOTAL PRESCRIPTION DUE TO MEDICATION ERROR
BEFORE YOU GIVE
IT ...
STEPS FOR SAFE AND EFFECTIVE
MEDICATION
KNOW
your medication
CHECK
you have the right medicine
ASK
your patient if they understand