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August 11, 2025

Development of indicators to assess medication safety – An experience from a resource limited healthcare setting

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IWIndunil WeliwatteNSNR SamaranayakePJPradeepa Jayawardane

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This study develops 104 indicators for assessing medication safety in resource limited settings, implying a new framework for evaluation.

Key Points

  • Developed 104 indicators to assess medication safety in resource limited healthcare settings, focusing on critical processes.
  • Experts rated each of the 126 indicators on parameters like relevance and feasibility using a 1–9 Likert scale, achieving consensus.
  • Indicators were categorized into core and supplementary, with 80 core indicators encompassing organizational and process elements.
  • The structured approach may enable improved medication safety assessments and contribute to better healthcare outcomes in low-resource environments.

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Weliwatte et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c2354db210217d647700aahttps://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-6910993/v1
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