OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the frequency of medication errors using a multidisciplinary
approach, to classify these errors by type, and to determine how often medication errors are …

Background Despite wide recognition that the delivery of medical care by trainees involves
special risks, information about the types and causes of medical errors involving trainees is …

Background: Medication errors are common among inpatients and many are preventable
with computerized prescribing. Relatively little is known about outpatient prescribing errors …

Background Errors in medication use are a patient safety concern globally, with different
regions reporting differing error rates, causes of errors and proposed solutions. The …

Health information technology (health IT), especially technology related to electronic health
records (EHRs) and electronic prescription (e-prescribing) systems, is believed to be the …

Interventions performed by 89 community pharmacists in 5 states to correct the prescribing
problems they identified on new prescription orders were documented by trained observers …

Background Adverse drug events and medication errors are threats to quality care. Inpatient
studies suggest that a pharmacist may reduce these events, but outpatient studies have not …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Health policy forces are promoting the adoption of
interoperable electronic health records (EHRs) with electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) …

Purpose To determine emergency medicine residents' emotional and behavioral responses
to their medical errors and examine associations between residents' responses to medical …

Background: Prescription writing is one of the most important and basic skills that a doctor
needs. Prescribing errors may have various detrimental consequences. Hence, the …