Study results may lead to a better understanding of the barriers to medication error reporting, why these barriers exist and what can be done to successfully overcome them. These results could be used by hospitals to encourage reporting of medication errors and ultimately make organisational changes leading to a reduction in the incidence of medication errors and an improvement in patient safety.

The Weber effect was replicable by using drugs marketed in the United States and using reports that were submitted to a U.S. database. Various other factors affected spontaneous reporting of adverse events, as peaks in the number of reports were seen numerous times for each drug after the initial 5-year marketing period.

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