High incidence of medication documentation errors in a Swiss university hospital due to the handwritten prescription process

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hartel, Maximilian J ^a   Staub, Lukas P ^b   Röder, Christoph ^a,b   Eggli, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

adverse event; handwriting; legibility; medical error; medication error; Medication safety

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DOCUMENTATION; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCRIPTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOCUMENTATION; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; MEDICATION SYSTEMS, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWITZERLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051799895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-11-199     Document Type: Article

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