ArticleTherapeutics and clinical risk management2005
Prescribing errors and other problems reported by community pharmacists.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Medication errors in community pharmacies: a systematic review of the international literature.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- The impact of a prescription review and prescriber feedback system on prescribing practices in primary care clinics: a cluster randomised trial.BMC family practice · 2018Trial
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- Prescribing Errors in Iraqi Intensive and Cardiac Care Units: A Qualitative Investigations of Pharmacists' Perceptions, Determining Factors, Outcomes and Management Strategies.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2026Article
- Identification, classification, and documentation of drug related problems in community pharmacy practice in Europe: a scoping review.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2025Article
- Trends in dispensing errors reported in Finnish community pharmacies in 2015-2020: a national retrospective register-based study.BMC primary care · 2024Article
- Community Pharmacists' Beliefs about Suboptimal Practice during the Times of COVID-19.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Assessment of prescribing errors reported by community pharmacy professionals.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2022Article
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- The Practice of the Community Pharmacists in Managing Potential Drug-Drug Interactions: A Simulated Patient Visits.Integrated pharmacy research & practice · 2022Article
- Clinical and Organizational Impacts of Medical Ordering Settings on Patient Pathway and Community Pharmacy Dispensing Process: The Prospective ORDHOSPIVILLE Study.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Description of pharmacists' reported interventions to prevent prescribing errors among in hospital inpatients: a cross sectional retrospective study.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Nature and frequency of prescription modifications in community pharmacies: A nationwide study in the Netherlands.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2021Article
- Assessing automated product selection success rates in transmissions between electronic prescribing and community pharmacy platforms.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2021Article
- The Practice Guidelines for Multidose Drug Dispensing Need Revision-An Investigation of Prescription Problems and Interventions.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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- Prescribing error reporting in primary care: a narrative synthesis systematic review.Integrated healthcare journal · 2020Review
- How timely is access to palliative care medicines in the community? A mixed methods study in a UK city.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Evaluation of medication counseling practice at community pharmacies in Qassim region, Saudi Arabia.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2018Article
- Prescribing error at hospital discharge: a retrospective review of medication information in an Irish hospital.Irish journal of medical science · 2017Article
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Abstract
introductionPrevention of medication errors is a priority for health services worldwide. Pharmacists routinely screen prescriptions for potential problems, including prescribing errors. This study describes prescribing problems reported by community pharmacists and discusses them from an error prevention perspective.
methodFor one month, nine community pharmacists documented prescribing problems, interventions made, and the proximal causes of the problems. The results were presented to local GPs and pharmacists at a meeting and feedback was invited.
resultsFor 32 403 items dispensed, pharmacists reported 196 prescribing problems (0.6%). The reporting rates ranged from 0.2%-1.9% between pharmacists and were inversely correlated to dispensing volume. Prescriptions containing incomplete or incorrect information accounted for two-thirds of the problems. Lack of information on the prescriptions and transcribing/typing errors were the most frequently cited proximal causes. A few pitfalls of computerized prescribing were observed.
conclusionAlthough rates of prescribing problems reported were relatively low, community pharmacists and patients remain important safeguards. This study identified potential causes of prescribing errors, and illustrated areas which could be improved in the design of computerized prescribing systems, and the communication and sharing of information between GPs and pharmacists.
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