Pharmacists interventions in prescribing errors at hospital discharge: An observational study in the context of an electronic prescribing system in a UK teaching hospital

Drug Safety

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1027-1044

  Abdel Qader, Derar H ^a   Harper, Lindsay ^b   Cantrill, Judith A ^a   Tully, Mary P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SALFORD ROYAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

E prescribing; Hospitalisation; Medication errors; Pharmaceutical services; Prescribing

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMINOPHYLLINE; AMIODARONE; BENDROFLUMETHIAZIDE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CODEINE; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE PLUS SALMETEROL; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; ISOSORBIDE MONONITRATE; LISINOPRIL; METFORMIN; NICOTINE; NICOTINE GUM; NIFEDIPINE; NITROFURANTOIN; OMEPRAZOLE; PARACETAMOL; PHYLLOCONTIN CONTINUS; PREDNISOLONE; RISEDRONIC ACID; SALBUTAMOL; SENNA EXTRACT; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DATA EXTRACTION; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG USE; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; MORNING DOSAGE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MALE; MEDICAL ORDER ENTRY SYSTEMS; MEDICATION ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PHARMACISTS; PHARMACY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957787520     PISSN: 01145916     EISSN: 11791942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11538310-000000000-00000     Document Type: Article

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