PERAN TENAGA TEKNIS KEFARMASIAN DALAM MENURUNKAN ANGKA KEJADIAN MEDICATION ERROR

Introduction: Medication error in term is the incidence thatcan be harmful to the patient due to human error in handlinghospitalized patient care that actually can be avoided. Medicationerror can be classified as: dispensing errors, prescribingerrors and administration errors. Among of medication errorcaused by less communication, loading work, distribution systemand a role of occupational health care was low enough.Objective: The aim of this research was to evaluate the frequencyand type’s incidence of medication error by a role ofoccupational pharmacy working at hospitalized room care.Based on active participation they act to check the appropriateof Medical notes, Recipe (R/), Nursing drug administration notes;such as identity of patient, Medical record number, productname, quantity, posology, strengthening, doses ,and directionof doses.Methods: This research was pre-experimental, which tookpre-post intervention approach. Data Collection were conductedin three steps; pre-participation, being-participation andpost-partcipation. To indentify the incidence of medication errorof their active participant determined by Chi-Square statisticallyperformance.Result. As the result of 94 samples patient there were theinfluences of occupational pharmacy among inter variability inwhich the odds ratio value was 4,055, p value 0,0001. Amongof medication error the higher performance were administrationphase 81,32%, prescribing phase 15,88 % and transcribingphase 2,8%.Conclusion: Increasing a role of occupational pharmacy inthe hospitalized health care can be lowering the incidence ofmedication error due to their active participation.Keywords: medication error, RK Charitas Hospital, occupationalpharmac