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 …

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 …

Background Mental illness and medication safety are key priorities for healthcare systems
around the world. Despite most patients with mental illness being treated exclusively in …

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 …

Objectives Prescribing is not always driven by therapeutic motives alone; social and intrinsic
factors also play a part in the decision. However, most research into prescribing influences …

Aims Prescribing errors are common and can be detrimental to patient care and costly.
Junior doctors are more likely than consultants to make a prescribing error, yet there is only …

Background Clinical pharmacy services improve patient safety, outcomes, and care quality;
however, UK clinical pharmacy services face limited resources, insufficient capacity, and …

Background Medication dispensing is a core function of community pharmacies, and errors
that occur during the dispensing process are a major concern for pharmacy profession …

Background Prescribing is a complex and error-prone task that demands expertise.
McLellan et al.'s theory of expertise development model (“the model”), developed to assess …

Abstract Background Although prescribing errors (PEs) are the most common type of
medication errors and cause morbidity and mortality, they have been rarely studied …