A PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY ON DRUG UTILISATION EVALUATION OF HIGH ALERT DRUGS USED IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL

Background:High alert medications are drugs with narrow margin of safety and require heightened vigilance. Although any drugs used improperly can cause harm, high-alert medications cause patient harm more likely when used in error and the harm they produce is likely to be more serious and leads to patient suffering and additional costs associated with care of these patients. Objective: To ensure safe medication practices and to eliminate medication errors that cause harm to the patients and standardize high-alert medication-handling practices Methodology It is a prospective observational study conducted in a tertiary care hospital for period of 3 months.75 patients who met the inclusion criteria were enrolled in study and conducted by using a high alert medication audit tool Result: Among the high alert drugs collected, it was observed that anti-thrombotics [34.57%] was found to be highly used as it place an effective role in orthopaedics and cardiac cases followed by opiods and narcotics 24.77%. Conclusion: Educational classes should be provided for all medical proffesionals who handling these medications thus medication errors can be reduce thus the significant injury cause by this drug can be prevented. Keywords: High alert medication, patient harm,educational classes.