Saskatchewan program to track medication mistakes by pharmacists to be made mandatory

The project lead for Saskatchewan's Compass program says the system to record and prevent medication mistakes in the province will become mandatory as of Dec. A pilot project in 2016 turned up more than 7,000 incidents. She states that while 80% of the time, the wrong medication or dosage didn't reach the patient, in 1% of cases, the incident caused harm. Compass, she adds, looks at the issue from three perspectives:

1. Looking at what incidents already occurred;
2. Identifying the contributing factors; and
3. Putting processes in places to prevent incidents from reoccurring.