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Methods to reduce prescribing errors in elderly patients with multimorbidity
Clinical Interventions in Aging, 2016 Amanda H Lavan, Paul F Gallagher, Denis O’Mahony Department of Geriatric Medicine, Cork University Hospital, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Abstract: The global population of multimorbid older people is growing steadily. Multimorbidity is
Lavan AH, Gallagher PF, O’Mahony D
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Study of prescribing errors of two different prescription systems: pre-printed prescription from historical medication and hand-written prescription [PDF]
Pharmaceutical Sciences Asia, 2022 A retrospective observational study of 1,160 prescriptions with prescribing errors from a large academic hospital in Thailand from 2014 to 2017. The aims of this study are to explore the proportion of prescribing error from pre-printed prescriptions and ...
Nisa Sae-lim, Ploylarp Lertvipapath
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Biomolecular and Health Science Journal, 2022 Introduction: Incident reporting is the primary key to implement patient safety. One indicator of patient safety is to reduce prescription errors.
Shely Oktavia Puspita Ningrum +2 more
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E-prescribing and medication safety in community settings: A rapid scoping review
Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 2023 Background: Medication prescribing is essential for the treatment, curing, maintenance, and/or prevention of an illness and disease, however, medication errors remain common.
Christine E. Cassidy +14 more
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Effects of two commercial electronic prescribing systems on prescribing error rates in hospital in-patients: a before and after study. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2012 BACKGROUND: Considerable investments are being made in commercial electronic prescribing systems (e-prescribing) in many countries. Few studies have measured or evaluated their effectiveness at reducing prescribing error rates, and interactions between ...
Johanna I Westbrook +8 more
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Errors of drug prescribing. [PDF]
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 1975 Seven thousand five hundred and twenty‐six prescriptions written for eight hundred and forty patients in three hospital wards have been analysed for errors of drug use and errors of prescription writing. 2. According to the criteria adopted for this survey, more than 3% of prescriptions contained an error of drug use and more than 30% an error of ...
D E, Tesh, L, Beeley
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BMC Health Services Research, 2019 Background Prescribing errors may, influenced by some risk factors, cause adverse drug events. Most studies in this field focus on errors in prescriptions for hospital inpatients, with only a few on those for outpatients.
Jian-hui Yang +3 more
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Medication errors: prescribing faults and prescription errors [PDF]
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2009 1. Medication errors are common in general practice and in hospitals. Both errors in the act of writing (prescription errors) and prescribing faults due to erroneous medical decisions can result in harm to patients.2. Any step in the prescribing process can generate errors. Slips, lapses, or mistakes are sources of errors, as in unintended omissions in
VELO, Giampaolo, MINUZ, Pietro
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Prescribing errors in psychiatry [PDF]
Psychiatric Bulletin, 2003 Aims and Method The Department of Health would like to see serious prescribing errors reduced by 40% by 2005. Little is currently known about prescribing errors made by psychiatrists. The aim of this study was to describe prescribing errors within psychiatry by analysing interventions made by pharmacists ...
Carol Paton, Stuart Gill-Banham
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Concomitant prescribing and dispensing errors at a Brazilian hospital: a descriptive study
Clinics, 2011 OBJECTIVE: To analyze the prevalence and types of prescribing and dispensing errors occurring with high-alert medications and to propose preventive measures to avoid errors with these medications.
Maria das Dores Graciano Silva +5 more
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