Rational and Safe Medication Prescription

Context

The right prescription to the right patient at the right time in the result of 4 essential parameters: the patient’s individual parameters, prescription best practices, the institutional regulations for structured prescriptions, and the choice of medications referenced by the medication commission. Aligning these 4 parameters is not easy and yet it is so crucial for patients. We wish to make prescribing safe in order to decrease potentially avoidable errors.

Project

This project is to develop, based on the Swiss Cheese model, a common concept around alerts and computerized decision-making aids in order to make prescribing medication safer. This model was conceived to reduce the number of accidents in a complex socio-professional context by highlighting and connecting the elements involved in their occurrence. The founders of the project are two experts in the field of medications and their prescription.

project managers

Dr. Nathalie Vernaz Hegi, Adjunct Pharmacist, Directorate of Medicine and Quality, Geneva University Hospitals

Dr. Caroline Samer, Deputy Head Physician and Clinical Professor, Pharmacology and Clinical Toxicology Division, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, and Intensive Care, Geneva University Hospitals