title: Noncompliance pattern due to medication errors at a Teaching Hospital in Srikot, India.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the medication errors leading to noncompliance in a tertiary care teaching hospital.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study was conducted in a tertiary care hospital of a teaching institution from Srikot, Garhwal, Uttarakhand to analyze the medication errors in 500 indoor prescriptions from medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and ENT departments over five months and 100 outdoor patients of medicine department.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Medication error rate for indoor patients was found to be 22.4 % and 11.4% for outdoor patients as against the standard acceptable error rate 3%. Maximum errors were observed in the indoor prescriptions of the surgery department accounting for 44 errors followed by medicine 32 and gynecology 25 in the 500 cases studied leading to faulty administration of medicines.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Many medication errors were noted which go against the practice of rational therapeutics. Such studies can be directed to usher in the rational use of medicines for increasing compliance and therapeutic benefits.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Vir Chandra Singh Garhwali Govt. Institute of Medical Science and Research, Srikot-Srinagar, Pauri-Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India.
authors.forename: Heenopama
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Thakur
authors.forename: Vijay
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Thawani
authors.forename: Rangeel Singh
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Raina
authors.forename: Gitanjali
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kothiyal
authors.forename: Mrinmoy
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chakarabarty
mesh_terms: D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007297:Inpatients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010045:Outpatients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D060891:Root Cause Analysis; D062606:Tertiary Care Centers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
keywords: Irrational polypharmacy; lookalike sound alike; medication error rate; prescription