PMID- 34188568
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220424
IS  - 1179-1594 (Print)
IS  - 1179-1594 (Electronic)
IS  - 1179-1594 (Linking)
VI  - 14
DP  - 2021
TI  - Medication Error During the Day and Night Shift on Weekdays and Weekends: A 
      Single Teaching Hospital Experience in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
PG  - 2571-2578
LID - 10.2147/RMHP.S311638 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: The association between medication error incidence and time (day 
      shift vs night shift) have not been extensively studied in Saudi Arabia, this 
      study aimed to answer this question: is there a relationship between medication 
      error incidence and time of the day (day shifts vs night shifts) on weekdays and 
      weekends?. OBJECTIVE: To identify whether medication errors and their 
      sub-categories are significantly different between day shifts, night shifts, 
      during weekdays and weekends. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of medication 
      errors reported by health-care practitioners from January 2018 to December 2019 
      through the Electronic-Occurrence Variance Reporting System (E-OVR) of a 
      university teaching hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Statistical analysis was 
      used to determine the differences between the medication errors and their 
      sub-categories and day and night shifts during weekdays (from Sunday to Thursday) 
      and weekends (Friday and Saturday). RESULTS: A total of 2626 medication errors 
      were reported over 2 years from January 2018 to December 2019. The most prevalent 
      sub-category of medication errors was prescribing errors (55%), while the least 
      common sub-category of medication errors was administration errors (0.6%). There 
      was a statistically significant difference between medication errors and day of 
      the week. Medication errors that happened on weekdays were greater than at 
      weekends (P = 0.01). During weekends, medication errors were more likely to occur 
      at the night shift compared to the day shift (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Timing of 
      medication errors incidence is an important factor to be considered for improving 
      the medication use process and improving patient safety. Further researches are 
      needed that focus on intervention to reduce these errors, especially during night 
      shifts.
CI  - (c) 2021 Aljuaid et al.
FAU - Aljuaid, Mohammed
AU  - Aljuaid M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9339-822X
AD  - Department of Health Administration, College of Business Administration, King 
      Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Alajman, Najla
AU  - Alajman N
AD  - Department of Rehabilitation, Sultan Bin Abdualaziz Humanitarian City, Riyadh, 
      Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Alsafadi, Afraa
AU  - Alsafadi A
AD  - Department of Pharmacy Services, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi 
      Arabia.
FAU - Alnajjar, Farrah
AU  - Alnajjar F
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6738-5425
AD  - Yanbu General Hospital, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
FAU - Alshaikh, Mashael
AU  - Alshaikh M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2874-2677
AD  - Department of Pharmacy Services, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi 
      Arabia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210621
PL  - England
TA  - Risk Manag Healthc Policy
JT  - Risk management and healthcare policy
JID - 101566264
PMC - PMC8232963
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - day shifts
OT  - medication errors
OT  - night shifts
OT  - patient safety
OT  - weekdays
OT  - weekends
COIS- The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.
EDAT- 2021/07/01 06:00
MHDA- 2021/07/01 06:01
PMCR- 2021/06/21
CRDT- 2021/06/30 06:36
PHST- 2021/03/18 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/05/24 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/06/30 06:36 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/07/01 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/07/01 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/06/21 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 311638 [pii]
AID - 10.2147/RMHP.S311638 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Risk Manag Healthc Policy. 2021 Jun 21;14:2571-2578. doi: 10.2147/RMHP.S311638. 
      eCollection 2021.