Segurança do paciente na terapêutica medicamentosa e a influência da prescrição médica no erro de dose

Abstract

Medication errors are considered a serious public health problem and also one of the main adverse events suffered by hospitalized patients. Objectives: To synthesize through the literature what are the prescription errors and how they influence the safety of drug therapy. Method: Integrative literature review in the databases of Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO), among other publications in the field of Nursing. Results: health sciences descriptors (DeCS) were used: DRD prescription drug ND; ET therapy; DS medication. A total of 25 articles were found and 10 were selected for analysis as they deal specifically with the delimited subject. Conclusion: Prescribing errors such as: ambiguous, illegible or incomplete writings, lack of standardization of the nomenclature of the prescribed drugs, or use of abbreviations and erasures can impair the safety of drug therapy, cause illness and even death.