Physicians' medication prescribing in primary care in Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia. Literature review, part 3: Prescribing errors;Comportement prescripteur des médecins en soins de santé primaires à Riyadh (Arabie saoudite). Examen des publications, troisième partie: Les erreurs de prescription

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 140-148

  Qureshi, N A ^a   Neyaz, Y ^a   Khoja, T ^b   Magzoub, M A ^c   Haycox, A ^c   Walley, T ^c  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Ministry of Health ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSULTATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICATION ERROR; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MEDLINE; NURSE ATTITUDE; PEER REVIEW; PHARMACIST ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; SAUDI ARABIA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREND STUDY; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

EID: 79952143779     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26719/2011.17.2.140     Document Type: Review

References (100)

1. Barker KN, McConnel WE. How to detect medication errors. Modern Hospital, 1962, 99:95-106.
2. Leape LL. Reporting of adverse events. New England Journal of Medicine, 2002, 347(20):1633-1638.
3. About the National Reporting and Learning Service. National Patient Safety Agency [website] (http://www.nrls.npsa.nhs.uk/about-us/, accessed 12 December 2010).
4. Neyaz Y et al. Medication prescribing pattern in primary care in Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2011, 17(2):149-155.
5. Khoja T et al. Medication errors in primary care in Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2011, 17(2):156-159.
6. Magzoub MA et al. Determinants of physicians' medication prescribing behaviour in primary care in Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2011, 17(2):160-166.
7. Neyaz Y et al. Predictors of quality of medication prescribing in primary care in Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2011, 17(2):167-171.
8. Qureshi NA et al. Effectiveness of three interventions on primary care physicians' medication prescribing in Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2011, 17(2):172-179.
9. Kohn LT, Corrigan JM, Donaldson MS, eds. To err is human. Building a safer health system. Washington DC, National Academy Press, 2000:23.
10. Bates DW et al. The costs of adverse drug events in hospitalized patients. Adverse Drug Events Prevention Study Group. Journal of the American Medical Association, 1997, 277:307-311.
11. Bates DW. Unexpected hypoglycemia in a critically ill patient. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2002, 137:110-116.
12. Sandars J, Esmail A. The frequency and nature of medical error in primary care: understanding the diversity across studies. Family Practice, 2003, 20:231-236.
13. Cousins DH et al. Medication errors in intravenous drug preparation and administration: a multi-centre audit in the UK, Germany and France. Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2005, 14:190-195.
14. Morcos S, Francis SA, Duggan C. Where are the weakest links? A descriptive study of discrepancies in prescribing between primary and secondary sectors of mental health service provision. Psychiatric Bulletin, 2002, 26:371-374.
15. Wirtz V, Taxis K, Barber ND. An observational study of intravenous medication errors in the United Kingdom and in Germany. Pharmacy World and Science, 2003, 25:104-111.
16. Taxis K, Barber ND. Ethnographic study of incidence and severity of intravenous drug errors. British Medical Journal, 2003, 326:684.
17. Bates DW. A 40-year-old woman who noticed a medication error. Journal of the American Medical Association, 2001, 285:3134-3140.
18. Blix HS et al. The majority of hospitalized patients have drugrelated problems: results from a prospective study in general hospitals. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2004, 60:651-658.
19. Gandhi TK et al. Drug complications in outpatients. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2000, 15:149-154.
20. Dean B, Barber N, Schachter M. What is a prescribing error? Quality in Health Care 2000; 9:.232-237.
21. Phillips DP, Bredder CC. Morbidity and mortality from medical errors: an increasingly serious public health problem. Annual Review of Public Health, 2002, 23:135-150.
22. Adubofour KO et al. Strategies to reduce medication errors in ambulatory practice. Journal of the National Medical Association, 2004, 96:1558-1564.
23. Royal S et al. Interventions in primary care to reduce medication related adverse events and hospital admissions: systematic review and meta-analysis. Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2006, 15:23-31.
24. Webb S, Lloyd M. Prescribing and referral in general practice: a study of patients' expectations and doctors actions. British Journal of General Practice, 1994, 44:165-169.
25. American Medical Association White Paper on Elderly Health. Report of the Council on Scientific Affairs. Archives of Internal Medicine, 1990, 150:2459-2472.
26. Avery AJ et al. Safer medicines management in primary care. British Journal of General Practice, 2002, 52S:17-22.
27. Taylor R. National and international patterns of drug use. In: Hobbs R, Bradley C, eds. Prescribing in primary care. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998:9-35
28. Cohen MR, ed. Medication errors. Washington DC, American Pharmaceutical Association, 1999.
29. MacKinnon NJ. Seven strategies to strengthen our medicationuse system. Californian Journal of Health Promotion, 2001, 54:72-74.
30. Hayward RA, Hofer TP. Estimating hospital deaths due to medical errors: preventability is in the eye of the reviewer. Journal of the American Medical Association, 2001, 286:415-420.
31. Brennan TA et al. Incidence of adverse events and negligence in hospitalized patients: results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study 1. New England Journal of Medicine, 1991, 324:370-376.
32. Leape LL. Error in medicine. Journal of the American Medical Association, 1994, 272:1851-1857.
33. Johnson JA, Bootman JL. Drug-related morbidity and mortality: a cost-of-illness model. Archives of Internal Medicine, 1995, 155:1949-1956.
34. Rochon PA, Gurwitz JH. Drug therapy. Lancet, 1995, 346:32-36.
35. Vincent C, Neale G, Woloshynowych M. Adverse events in British hospitals: preliminary retrospective record review. British Medical Journal, 2001, 322:517-519.
36. Vincent C et al. How to investigate and analyze clinical incidents: clinical risk unit and association of litigation and risk management protocol. British Medical Journal, 2000, 320:777-781.
37. Mitchell P. US urged to fight "unacceptable" rate of medication errors. Lancet, 1999, 354:16.
38. McDonald CJ, Weiner M, Hui SI. Deaths due to medical error are exaggerated in the Institute of Medicine Report. Journal of the American Medical Association, 2000, 284:93-95.
39. Blendon RJ et al. Patient safety: views of practicing physicians and the public on medical errors. New England Journal of Medicine, 2002, 347:1933-1940.
40. Leape LL. Institute of Medicine medical error figures are not exaggerated. Journal of the American Medical Association, 2000, 284:95-97.
41. Lesar TS. Errors in the use of medication dosage equations. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 1998, 152:340-344.
42. Lesar TS. Tenfold medication dose prescribing errors. Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 2002, 36:1833-1839.
43. Buck ML. Preventing medication errors in children. Paediatric Pharmacotherapy, 1999, 5(10):1-8.
44. Kaushal R et al. Medication errors and adverse drug events in pediatric in-patients. Journal of the American Medical Association, 2001, 285:2114-2120.
45. Walsh KE, Kaushal R, Chessare JB. How to avoid paediatric medication errors: a user's guide to the literature. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2005, 90:698-702.
46. Pate B, Stajer R. The diagnosis and treatment of blame. Journal for Healthcare Quality, 2001, 23:4-8.
47. Ball MJ, Douglas JVIT. Patient safety, and quality care. Journal of Healthcare Information Management, 2001, 16:1-6.
48. Dean B et al. Causes of prescribing errors in hospital inpatients: a prospective study. Lancet, 2002, 359:1373-1378.
49. Benjamin DM. Reducing medication errors and increasing patient safety: case studies in clinical pharmacology. Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2003, 43:768-783.
50. Weingart SN et al. Epidemiology of medical errors. Western Journal of Medicine, 2000, 172:390-393.
51. A study of physicians' handwriting as a time waster. Journal of the American Medical Association, 1979, 242:2429-2430.
52. Ridley SA, Booth SA, Thompson CM. Prescription errors in UK critical care units. Anaesthesia, 2004, 59:1193-1200.
53. British national formulary, 2006 (http://www.bnf.org, accessed 12 December 2010).
54. Mehta RH, Alexander JH. Relationship of incorrect dosing of fibrinolytic therapy and clinical outcomes. Journal of the American Medical Association, 2005, 293:1746-1750.
55. Midlöv P et al. Medication errors when transferring elderly patients between primary health care and hospital care. Pharmacy World and Science, 2005, 27:116-120.
56. Fletcher KE et al. Systematic review: effects of resident work hours on patient safety. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2004, 141:851-857.
57. Phillips DP, Christenfeld N, Glynn LM. Increase in US medication- error deaths between 1983 and 1993. Lancet, 1998, 351:643-644.
58. Grissinger MC, Kelly K. Reducing the risk of medication errors in women. Journal of Women's Health, 2005, 14:61-67.
59. Evans RS et al. Risk factors for adverse drug events: a 10-year analysis. Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 2005, 39:1161-1168.
60. Metlay JP et al. Medication safety in older adults: home-based practice patterns. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2005, 53:976-982.
61. Adherence to long-term therapies: evidence for action. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2003.
62. Johnell K et al. Individual characteristics, area social participation, and primary non-concordance with medication: a multilevel analysis. BMC Public Health, 2006, 6:52.
63. Buchanan TL, Barker KN. Illumination and errors in dispensing. American Journal of Hospital Pharmacy, 1991, 48:2137-2145.
64. Koren G, Haslam RH. Paediatric medication errors: predicting and preventing ten fold disasters. Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 1994, 34:1043-1045.
65. Malone DC et al. Pharmacist workload and pharmacy characteristics associated with the dispensing of potentially clinically important drug-drug interactions. Medical Care, 2007, 45:456-462.
66. Ferner RE. Medication errors that have led to manslaughter charges. British Medical Journal, 2000, 321:1212-1216.
67. Hebert PC, Levin AV, Robertson G. Bioethics for clinicians: 23. Disclosure of medical errors. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2001, 164:509-513.
68. Soumerai SB, Lipton HL. Evaluating and improving physician prescribing. In Strom BL, ed. Pharmacoepidemiology, 2nd, ed. London, John Wiley, 1994.
69. Buurma H et al. Evaluation of the clinical value of pharmacists' modifications of prescription errors. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2004, 58:503-511.
70. Helling DK. Implementing yesterday's promises. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2000, 57:576-581.
71. Kelly WN. Potential risks and prevention, Part 4: reports of significant adverse drug events. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2001, 58:1406-1412.
72. Millonig MK, Jackson TL, Ellis WM. Improving medication use through pharmacists' access to patient-specific health care information. Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, 2002, 42:638-645.
73. Fertleman M, Barnette N, Patel T. Improving medication management for patients: the effect of a pharmacist on postadmission ward rounds. Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2005, 14:207-211.
74. Cavell GF et al. Attitudes of community pharmacists towards medication error reporting. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 2001, 9 (Suppl.):R64.
75. Leape L et al.; ADE Prevention Study Group. Systems analysis of adverse drug events. Journal of the American Medical Association, 1995, 274:35-43.
76. Ferner RE. Medicines management: a sour taste. Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 2002, 95:181-184.
77. Jaski ME et al. Medication review and documentation in physician office practice. Effective Clinical Practice, 2000, 3:31-34.
78. Cox AR et al. Adverse drug reactions in patients admitted to hospital identified by discharge ICD-10 codes and by spontaneous reports. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2001, 52:337-339.
79. Ashcroft DM, Quinlan P, Blenkinsopp A. Prospective study of incidence, nature and causes of dispensing errors in community pharmacies. Pharmacoepidemiology, 2005, 14:327-332.
80. Westfall JM et al. Applied strategies for improving patient safety: a comprehensive process to improve care in rural and frontier communities. Journal of Rural Health, 2004, 20:355-362.
81. Capuzzo M et al. Reporting of unintended events in an intensive care unit: comparison between staff and observer. BMC Emergency Medicine, 2005, 5:3.
82. Barber ND, Dean BS. The incidence of medication errors and ways to reduce them. Clinical Risk, 1998, 4:103-106.
83. Dean BS, Barber ND. A validated, reliable method of scoring the severity of medication errors. American Journal of Health- System Pharmacy, 1999, 56:57-62.
84. Morris CJ et al. Preventing drug-related morbidity: determining valid indicators. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2002, 14:183-198.
85. Magnus D, Rodgers S, Avery AJ. GPs' views on computerized drug interaction alerts: questionnaire survey. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 2002, 27:377-382.
86. Elson B. Electronic prescribing in ambulatory care: a market primer and implications for managed care pharmacy. Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy, 2001, 7:115-120.
87. Upperman JS et al. The impact of hospital-wide computerized physician order entry on medical errors in a paediatric hospital. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2005, 40:57-59.
88. Wilson T, Sheikh A. Enhancing public safety in primary care. British Medical Journal, 2002, 324:584-587.
89. Anderson S, Wittwer W. Using bar-code point-of-care technology for patient safety. Journal for Healthcare Quality, 2004, 26:5-11.
90. Grotting JB et al. The effect of barcode-enabled point of care technology on medication administration errors. Solana Beach, California, Bridge Medical, Inc., 2001.
91. Johnson KB et al. The effect of computer-assisted prescription writing on emergency department prescription errors. Academic Emergency Medicine, 2002, 9:1168-1175.
92. Avery AJ et al. Identifying and establishing consensus on the most important safety features of GP computer system: e- Delphi study. Informatics in Primary Care, 2005, 13:3-12.
93. Nebeker JR, Barach P, Samore MH. Clarifying adverse drug events: a clinician's guide to terminology, documentation, and reporting. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2005, 140:795-801.
94. Morrison-Griffiths S et al. Reporting of adverse drug reactions by nurses. Lancet, 2003, 361:1347-1348.
95. Pape TM et al. Innovative approaches to reducing nurses' distractions during medication administration. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 2005, 36:108-116.
96. Thomson DI, Oakes K. Information systems solution to medical errors. In: Proceedings of the Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, 4-8 February 2001.
97. Ioannidis JP, Lau J. Evidence on interventions to reduce medical errors: an overview and recommendations for future research. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2001, 16:325-334.
98. Thomas E. Review: some interventions are effective in reducing medical errors. Evidence-Based Medicine, 2001, 6:190.
99. Weingart SN et al. Lessons from a patient partnership intervention to prevent adverse drug events. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2004, 16:499-507.
100. Dowell D et al. Urban outpatient views on quality and safety in primary care. Healthcare Quarterly, 2005, 8:2-8.