Medication errors: the impact of prescribing and transcribing errors on preventable harm in hospitalised patients

Abstract

Although many prescribing and transcribing errors occur in the process of medication use of hospitalised patients, a minority lead to pADEs. In particular, therapeutic errors are the cause of these pADEs and are therefore clinically relevant. Intervention and prevention programmes should primarily focus on this type of medication error.

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