Exploring the relationship between safety culture and reported dispensing errors in a large sample of Swedish community pharmacies

BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Nordén Hägg, Annika ^a   Kälvemark Sporrong, Sofia ^a   Lindblad, Åsa K ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MEDICATION ERROR; PATIENT SAFETY; PHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS; SWEDEN;

HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PHARMACIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWEDEN;

EID: 84872023758     PISSN: 20506511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2050-6511-13-4     Document Type: Article

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