Safe Medication Practice Report 2007 Council of Europe · Background To Report • Medication...
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Safe Medication Practice Report 2007 Council of Europe
Professor David Cousins Head of Safe Medication PracticeNational Patient Safety Agency
National Health ServiceLondon
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Patient Safety
Patient safety is the freedom from accidental injury
in health care
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Background To Report
• Medication errors are the most common single preventable cause of adverse events in Europe
• The Council of Europe Committee of Experts on Pharmaceutical Questions established the Expert Group on Safe Medication Practices in 2003.
• Group tasked to review medication safety and to prepare recommendations to specifically prevent adverse events caused by medication errors in European health care.
• Multidisciplinary healthcare professionals
• Representatives from European Countries
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Objectives of Report
Provide information to:
• enhance awareness of medication errors across the European countries and recognition as an important system-based public health issue;
• provide guidance for reducing medication errors and preventable adverse drug events
• help European health authorities, governments and regulatory agencies, pharmaceutical companies, organisations and professional societies, health professionals and patients selecting top safety practices for implementation both at
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Report Overview
• Introduction: provides the scope of the report
• Chapter I: explores how to prevent errors by learning from medication errors
• Chapter II: outlines how to measure and evaluate medication safety
• Chapter III: explains how the design of medicinal products used in Europe can be developed to improve the in use -safety of medicinal products
• Chapter IV: describes methods for improving safe medication practices
• Chapter V: explores how medicine information practices contribute to medication safety
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NPSA Patient Safety Observatory Report
Medication Safety Incidents
January 2005 – June 2006
• National Centres for Safe Medication Practices should publish annual reports to identify
• risks and methods that have been used effectively to manage these risks.
• The information should be collated at European level and should be used to inform the external assessment
• of health care organisations.
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NRLS Medication Incidents –
Reported Degree of Harm
Severe
0.1%
Moderate
4.0%
Low
12.6%
Death
0.1%
No Harm
83.2%
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NRLS Medication Incidents – Care Setting
Acute
78%
Community Services
9%
Mental Health
7%
0ther
2%
Community Pharmacy
3%
GP's
1%
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NRLS Medication Incidents – Stage
Prescribing
16%
Administration
59%
Other
7%
Dispensing/
Preparation
18%
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The 10 most common types of medication
error reported to the NRLS
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European Medicines Regulations
• Current European medicines regulations concerning
naming, packaging and labelling for pharmaceutical products provide inadequate safeguards for patients
• Medication errors frequently occur in Europe because
of sound-alike or look-alike drug names, similarities in
packaging and labelling appearance and unclear, ambiguous or incomplete label information
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The Importance Of Human Factors
• There is little recognition of the importance of the human factor principles in selection and design of drug names, labels and packages in order to minimise the potential for error and enhance medication safety
• The current design for labelling and packaging prioritise industry concerns, such as “trade dress”, instead of considering the context where the pharmaceutical product has to be used. It is not patient-centred, but, rather, relies on an assumption of perfect performance by healthcare professionals and by patients
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Recommendations for machine readable
codes on medicinal products
It is recommended that :
• EU medicines regulations should be updated to include design features for packaging and labelling of
medicine products that take incorporate human factors and promote safe use in practice.
• Include a requirement, that packaging and labelling
be subject to human factor assessment and user testing to be undertaken by the manufacturers.
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Recommendations for machine readable
codes on medicinal products
• Continuing the current non-standardised and unregulated
use of machine readable code son medicinal products is
likely to increase risks for patients in Europe.
• These codes are expected to be used more frequently in clinical practice in the future. Inaccurate, confusing or
unreadable codes or codes not included in health care
databases may pose risks.
• Machine readable codes need to be standardised and
considered together with other labelling information in the
course of the marketing authorisation procedure of
medicinal products in order to ensure patient safety and to
prevent new risks.
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Recommendations for machine readable
codes on medicinal products
• European medicine regulations should include
requirements for machine readable codes.
• As an important element, the medicine regulations
should require that pharmaceutical companies provide unit dose medicines with a bar code.
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Recommendations for machine readable
codes on medicinal products
• With a view to full benefit for patient safety by this technology, it is recommended that the following changes are made to European medicines regulations:
• all medicinal products marketed in Europe should have an EAN-13 code bar containing the GTIN on the primary medicine container as a minimum requirement with an implementation period of two years;
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Recommendations for machine readable
codes on medicinal products
• have a data matrix bar code or RFID chip on both the primary container and unit dose with an implementation period of five years.
• The GTIN, batch number and expiry date should be encoded; include a unique serial number if the medicine is at risk of being counterfeit.
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EFPIA Supply Chain Integrity Initiative
• Use of data matrix bar codes
• Enabling anti-counterfeiting and other patient safety safeguards
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Patient Safety Incident Involving
Vaccine Products
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Look-a-like packaging for Diamorphine
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Problems with labellingPatient Safety Incident Involving
Diamorphine Ampoules
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Use Blank Space To Emphasise Critical Information
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Critical Information In The Same Field of Vision On At Least Three Non-Opposing Faces
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Use Colours To Differentiation to Highlight Information
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Allocate Space for a Dispensing Label
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Recently Re-Designed Packaging
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Recently Re-Designed Packaging
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Name and Strength
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Ampoule Design
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Vial Design
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Batch and Expiry
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Infusion Design
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Highlight Route of Administration
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Bar Codes
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Peelable Ampoule/Vial Labels
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Differentiating Injectable Medicine
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Dispensing Labels
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Room For Dispensing Labels
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The Use of Bar Codes
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Labelling Small Containers
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Summary
• Safe medication practice is an important public health issue in Europe
• Current European medicines regulations concerning naming, packaging and labelling for pharmaceutical products provide inadequate safeguards for patients
• The Council of Europe Safe Medication Practice Report Recommends changes in European Regulation to require the use of a GTIN, batch number and expiry date and a unique serial number (where appropriate) on outer packs and unit of use packaging in five years.
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More information
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