Frequency of Medication Errors in Outpatient Pharmacy in Prince Hashem Bin Abdulla Hospital (RMS), Jordan

— Objectives: patient health and safety are the key thought to be in mind in the healthcare system and some of the greatest significant steps in raising the care steps of patients are recognizing the medication errors and the potential causes that may arise. Medical faults for instance medication errors are the greatest leading errors that act on health in addition to a wide-reaching problem. Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study accompanied by reviewing 2000 prescriptions of patients sent to an outpatient pharmacy during the period of January and February 2021, prescriptions features (class, prescribed amount, frequency, and duration of treatment) considered for appropriateness created by the Drug Information Handbook. Analytic measurements applied and used. Results: The 2000 prescriptions were studied and medication errors were noted in them. These errors were found in 349 prescriptions. The highest error rate was the wrong drug dose with a rate of 51.83%. Conclusion: Medication errors still exist and are of great concern to health care teams, writing prescriptions correctly, checking them and verifying them by pharmacists is important to reduce medication errors.