Background: Quality-related events are defined as medication errors that reach the patient
(eg, incorrect drug, dose and quantity), in addition to medication errors that are intercepted …

Background. Drug-related errors can compromise patient care, increase health care costs,
and, in worst case scenarios, result in patient deaths. Objective. To evaluate the incidence …

Objectives The aims of the study were to describe medication administration incidents
reported in England and Wales between 2007 and 2016, to identify which factors (reporting …

Purpose To identify factors in community pharmacy that facilitate error recovery from
medication incidents (MIs) and explore medication safety prevention strategies from the …

Background: Medications errors (MEs) have been a major concern of healthcare systems
worldwide. Voluntary-based incident reporting is the mainstay system to detect such events …

Background Medication safety has long been recognized as a key issue within the broader
patient safety agenda. Errors can occur at any step along the way, from prescribing to the …

Background and objectives: We aimed to describe medication-related incidents or
medication errors (MEs) reported by community pharmacists and analyze the prevalent …

Aims Most research into medication safety has been conducted in hospital settings with less
known about primary care. The aim of this study was to characterise the nature and causes …

Background Each year over 600 million prescription items are dispensed in community
pharmacies in England and Wales. Despite this, there is little published evidence relating to …

Objectives To (i) compare medication errors identified at audit and observation with
medication incident reports;(ii) identify differences between two hospitals in incident report …