Medication safety thermometer 2016 Quality accounts meeting · Safety thermometer introduced and...
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Medication safety thermometer 2016 Quality accounts meeting
• The New Zealand context
• The background
• What is involved
• The UK experience
Medication safety thermometer
Adverse drug events (ADEs) in New Zealand
Up to $158m is the estimated annual
cost of preventable ADEs in New Zealand.
Frequency of ADEs
13% with two medicines
58% with five medicines
82% with seven or more
NZ medication incidents Do they match what is on the safety thermometer?
• Anticoagulants
• Opioids
• Insulin
• Sedatives
• Allergy
• Omissions
UK development
• National Patient Safety Agency and National Reporting and Learning system established 2003
• Identified frequent events that caused harm and near-miss events
• Published bulletins, alerts, rapid response alerts etc
• The system changes required were not always actioned in health care settings
Safety thermometer introduced and the NPSA
• were keen to change their approach because of the low response to alerts
• identified the principles and the information the safety thermometer provided at ward / service level on what was happening locally
• started work with the Haelo team on developing a medication safety thermometer
Safety thermometer
• A measurement tool for improvement
• Engages frontline teams on the issues of medication error and harm
• Data provides a baseline, directs improvement efforts and measures improvement over time.
Medication safety thermometer
Measuring: • Allergy documentation • Medicine reconciliation on admission • Omitted doses • Anticoagulants error/harm • Opioids error/harm • Sedatives error/harm • Insulin error/ harm
Medication safety thermometer
UK choice of medicines
Medicine/therapeutic group % incidents fatal or severe harm outcome
Anticoagulants 11.2
Opioids 10.83
Antibiotics 5.84
Insulin 5.6
Benzodiazepines 3.28
NSAIDs 2.19
UK medication incidents category of error
Category of error Incidents % of medication incidents Omitted and delayed medicine 82, 028 15.58 Wrong dose or strength 80, 170 15.23 Wrong medicine 48, 834 9.28 Wrong frequency 44, 165 8.39 Wrong quantity 28, 764 5.46 Mismatch patient and medicine 21, 915 4.16 Wrong/transposed/omitted medicine label 13, 755 2.61
Medications Safety Thermometer trial
Initial observations
• Busy audit tool – needs NZ-ising!
• Requires MDT input
• Concept familiar to us as links strongly to Trigger tool methodology
• Well worth a considered trial
The UK experience
• Non- judgemental
• Identifies how many patients are not harmed by these incidents in a hospital or organisation
• Organisations can track improvement over time (rather than for comparison)
• Teams understanding and use of the tool varies
• Local leaders are important
• Local definitions based on national guidance can give ownership locally
The UK ideal / experience
Medication safety thermometer