Background: Parenteral nutrition (PN) is a high‐alert medication available for patient care
within a complex clinical process. Beyond application of best practice recommendations to …

Prescribing errors affect patient safety throughout hospital practice. Previous reviews of
studies have often targeted specific populations or settings, or did not adopt a systematic …

Aim This programme of research aimed to explore the causes of prescribing errors made by
first year foundation trainee (FY1) doctors, concentrating on the interplay between their …

Parenteral nutrition (PN) serves as an important therapeutic modality that is used in adults,
children, and infants for a variety of indications. The appropriate use of this complex therapy …

Objectives Study objectives were to investigate the prevalence and causes of prescribing
errors amongst foundation doctors (ie junior doctors in their first (F1) or second (F2) year of …

Introduction It has been suggested that doctors in their first year of post-graduate training
make a disproportionate number of prescribing errors. Objective This study aimed to …

Prescribing errors are common, they result in adverse events and harm to patients and it is
unclear how best to prevent them because recommendations are more often based on …

WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT• Adverse drug events are common in
National Health Service (NHS) hospitals where junior doctors take responsibility for most of …

WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT THIS SUBJECT• Recent studies have identified a
problem with prescribing errors in hospitals.• It is unclear to what extent educational …

Background Antimicrobial resistance has led to widespread implementation of interventions
for appropriate prescribing. However, such interventions are often adopted without an …