Factors Affecting the Performance of Medication Error Prevention of Sub-district Health Promoting Hospitals in Nakhon Pathom Province
ปัจจัยที่มีผลต่อการดำเนินงานป้องกันความคลาดเคลื่อนทางยาในโรงพยาบาลส่งเสริมสุขภาพตำบล จังหวัดนครปฐม
Keywords:
Medication Error, Sub-District Health Promoting HospitalsAbstract
Abstract
This study aimed: 1) to determine personal factors of pharmacy-related personnel, structural factors, and supportive factors from health-care network nodes or hospitals for preventing medication errors at sub-district health promoting hospitals; 2) to study the performance of medication error prevention; and 3) to explore the influence of personal factors, structural factors, and node-support factors on the prevention of medication errors at sub-district health promoting hospitals in Nakhon Pathom province. The study participants were all 134 pharmacy-related health personnel, 1 each of 134 sub-district health promoting hospitals in the province. Data collection was conducted in June and July 2019, using a questionnaire with the reliability values of 0.828, 0.813, and 0.916 for structural factors, supportive factors, and medication error prevention, respectively. Statistics used were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and stepwise multiple regression analysis.
The results showed that: 1) for all participants, the average age was 41.78 years; most of them were registered nurses (39.6%), had 1–5 years of pharmaceutical work experiences (41.8%), worked at a sub-district health promoting hospital with 4–6 health workers (47.8%), and had attended medication error training within the past year (66.4%); and overall, structural (Mean = 3.83) and node-support factors (Mean = 3.65) were at the high levels; 2) the performance of medication error prevention was at the high level; (Mean = 3.98); and 3) The study was analyzed by stepwise multiple regression analysis and found the relation between the structural and node-support factors could 54.1% predict the performance of medication error prevention at the sub-district hospitals.
Conclusion, sub-district health promotion hospitals received structural factors and node-support factors support in higher level will be improved in medication error prevention.
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