Objectives To provide national estimates of the number and clinical and economic burden of
medication errors in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Methods We used UK …

Poor patient safety practices may result in disability, injury, poor prognosis, or even death
and are primarily associated with a common concern in Africa. This study synthesized the …

The challenge to achieve safe prescribing merits the adjective 'titanic'. The organisational
and human errors leading to poor prescribing (eg underprescribing, overprescribing …

Background There is a need for greater understanding of the epidemiology of primary care
patient safety in order to generate solutions to prevent future harm. Aim To estimate the rate …

Aims To develop a list of prescribing indicators specific for the hospital setting that would
facilitate the prospective collection of high‐severity and/or high‐frequency prescribing …

Abstract Background In New Zealand, pharmacists are funded to provide adherence support
to their patients via a service called “Medicines Use Review”(MUR). The service is based on …

Prescribing errors are relatively common but preventable events. Most of these errors result
in no harm or low-to-moderate harm; however, some result in severe harm or death …

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Background Prescribing errors are one of the most common adverse events in healthcare.
Previous research in patient safety has highlighted the importance of error awareness …

Background Little is known about the impact of hospitalisation on prescribing in UK clinical
practice. Aim To investigate whether an emergency hospital admission drives increases in …