ArticleBritish journal of clinical pharmacology2009
Medication errors: the importance of safe dispensing.
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- A nationwide assessment of community pharmacists' attitudes towards dispensing errors: A cross-sectional study.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2022Article
- Incorporating 'reason for use' into the prescribing process of medication: a survey on the opinion of patients in Flanders, Belgium.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Analysis of the thinking process of pharmacists in response to changes in the dispensing environment using the eye-tracking method.Journal of pharmaceutical health care and sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
1. Although rates of dispensing errors are generally low, further improvements in pharmacy distribution systems are still important because pharmacies dispense such high volumes of medications that even a low error rate can translate into a large number of errors. 2. From the perspective of pharmacy organization and quality assurance, pharmacists should intensify their checking of prescriptions, in order to reduce prescription errors, and should implement strategies to communicate adequately with patients, in order to prevent administration errors. More and better studies are still needed in these areas. 3. More research is also required into: dispensing errors in out-patient health-care settings, such as community pharmacies in the USA and Europe; dispensing errors in hospitals and out-patient health-care settings in middle- and low-income countries; and the underlying causes of dispensing errors.
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