Prescription quality in an acute medical ward

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1158-1165

  Alyamani, Nayef A ^a   Hopf, Yvonne ^a   Williams, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inpatient prescribing; Prescribing errors; Prescription quality

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATENOLOL; CITALOPRAM; CLARITHROMYCIN; DALTEPARIN; DIGOXIN; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; OMEPRAZOLE; PARACETAMOL; PAROXETINE; RAMIPRIL; SALBUTAMOL; SERTRALINE; SIMVASTATIN; SPIRONOLACTONE; STEROID; TRAMADOL; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOTOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG COMPETITION; DRUG FORMULARY; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICATION ERROR; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL UNITS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MEDICATION ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 72449162595     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.1830     Document Type: Article

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