Exploring pharmacist experiences of delivering individualised prescribing error feedback in an acute hospital setting

Prescribing errors are a prevalent and prominent cause of patient safety incidents.1 Where prescribing errors occur, patients can be harmed or killed with patient harm reported to occur in 1 –2% of cases2 whilst the cost of avoidable harm is considerable. One report suggests that the cost of avoidable medication errors to the National Health Service (NHS) is £750 million per year.3

Source: Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy - November 20, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: M. Lloyd, S.D. Watmough, S.V. O'Brien, N. Furlong, K. Hardy Source Type: research