Patient Safety Week 2017
Medication Safety: QUIZ
Name: ………………………..
1)What is the theme of this year’s HQSC patient safety campaign?
Medication Safety………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2)What is medication reconciliation?
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3)Why is it important?
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4)Who is responsible for ensuring effective medication reconciliation?
a)Nurses
b)Surgeons
c)Anaesthetists
d)Pharmacists
e)Hospital Management
f)All of the above
5)All of these ‘problems’ have been proven to influence rates of readmission to hospital secondary to poor medication management, EXCEPT:
(Refer to article: “Medication Management Post Discharge: Who’s Job is it anyway?).
a)Discontinuity between: primary care (primary) and hospitals (tertiary)
b)Complex discharge information
c)Poor communication
d)Alterations to medication regimen
e)Adequate time allocated for discharge education
f)New self-care responsibilities for patients
6)Known risk factors for medication errors/misadventures include:
(Refer to article: “Medication Management Post Discharge: Who’s Job is it anyway?).
a)Being elderly
b)Numerous co-morbidities
c)Culture
d)Language barriers
e)Living alone
f)Cognitive impairment
g)All of the above
7)What percentage of adverse drug events in hospital are preventable? (See HQSC posters on display).
a)12%
b)50%
c)44%
d)90%
8)Medicines which are suspected to most commonly cause medicine-related harm? (See HQSC posters on display).
a)Anticoagulants
b)Opioids
c)Anti-emetics
d)Antipyretics
e)Anti-inflammatories
f)All of the above
9)For every 100 hospital admissions, how many medicine-related incidents occur leading to patient harm? (See HQSC posters on display).
a)28
b)40
c)12
d)67
10)An Australian study found that the likelihood of a patient continuing their same medication regimen upon discharge as on admission is: (Refer to article:
“Medication Reconciliation Challenges at Discharge from Hospital using an Electronic Medication Management System and Electronic Discharge Summaries”).
a)50%
b)25%
c)<10%
d)<5%
11)What ideas do you propose in order to improve medication safety in your clinical work area?
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12)What 3 questions would we like patients to ask us in regard to their medication during Patient Safety Week (& every time we give them or discuss medication with them)?
- What is my medication called? ……………………………………………………………………….
- What is it for? ...... ……………………………………………………………………………………
- When & how do I take it? ……………………………………………………………………………….
Thanksfor taking the time to complete the quiz!☺
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Acknowledgements/references:
Criddle, D. & Jayasuriya, P. (2015). Medication management post discharge: Whose job is it anyway?. Journal of Pharmacy Practice & Research, 45(2), 208-210.
Health Quality and Safety Commission New Zealand. (2016). Medicine. Retrieved from:
Ng, C., Welch, S., Luddington, J., Bui, D., Glasson, E., & Richardson, K. (2013). Medication reconciliation challenges at discharge from hospital using an electronic medication management system and electronic discharge summaries. Journal of Pharmacy Practice &Research, 43(1), 25-28.