| Autor: |
Svein, Haavik, Silje, Soeviknes, Hilde, Erdal, Inge, Kjonniksen, Anne Berit, Guttormsen, Anne Gerd, Granas |
| Rok vydání: |
2010 |
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| Zdroj: |
Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety. 20(1) |
| ISSN: |
1099-1557 |
| Popis: |
To study prescribing errors requiring pharmacists' interventions and to evaluate the potential clinical significance of the errors and omissions detected.The pharmacists at ten community pharmacies and two out-patient hospital pharmacies recorded prescribing errors and corresponding interventions using a modified version of a previously developed registration scheme. Prescription errors with potential clinical significance were scored according to a modified version of Safety Assessment Code (SAC)-scoreDuring the study period 85,475 prescriptions were dispensed. A total of 2385 prescribing errors were detected on 2226 (2.6%) prescriptions. The proportion of prescriptions with errors and omissions was more than four times higher on prescriptions from hospital physicians (7.1%) than on prescriptions from general practitioners (1.5%). The information on the majority (62.2%) of the prescriptions with inaccuracies had to be clarified before the drug could be dispensed. About 1/4 of the errors and omissions were of potential importance for the drug therapy. An expert panel of physicians and pharmacists judged 85% of these errors and omissions to be clinically significant. Individual physicians and pharmacists judged the clinical importance of the detected prescribing errors somewhat differently.Pharmacists intervened on 2.6% of prescriptions, and the majority of the potentially clinically significant prescribing errors were judged as significant to the patient's drug therapy and safety. |
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