Affiliation:
1. Apoteksbolaget AB, S-105 14 Stockholm, Sweden
2. Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital, Lund
Abstract
Abstract
Prescription errors identified and dealt with by personnel at 36 Swedish community and hospital pharmacies during March, 1992, were analysed. During the study period, the participating pharmacies handled 76,956 prescriptions for 41,908 patients. All prescription errors, even minor ones, were registered. In total 32,132 errors were detected and reported, corresponding to an overall rate of 42 per cent. The most common error was omission of the purpose of the therapy. This type of error was found in 20,517 prescriptions (64 per cent of all noted errors). Most detected errors did not require any special intervention by the dispensing pharmacist. Errors of commission, which are potentially harmful to the patient, totalled 338 or 1 per cent of the errors. The most common of these was that the dosage form stated was incorrect. The pharmacists were able to resolve almost three-quarters of the errors that required intervention and dispense the elucidated or amended prescription.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Health Policy,Pharmaceutical Science,Pharmacy
Reference12 articles.
1. Medication use in an imperfect world: Medicine misadventuring as an issue of public policy, part 1;Manasse;Am J Hosp Pharm,1989
2. Medication use in an imperfect world: Medicine misadventuring as an issue of public policy, part 2;Manasse;Am J Hosp Pharm,1989
3. Documenting prescribing errors and pharmacist interventions in community pharmacy practice;Rupp;Am Pharm,1988
4. Prescription errors and prescription control. (Published in Norwegian.);Grön;Ugeskr Laeger,1989
Cited by
28 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献