Open AccessMedication errors: a baseline survey of interventions recorded during the dispensing process in community pharmacies
Author(s) -
Quinlan P.,
Ashcroft D. M.,
Blenkinsopp A.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international journal of pharmacy practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 2042-7174
pISSN - 0961-7671
DOI - 10.1111/j.2042-7174.2002.tb00672.x
Subject(s) - medicine , baseline (sea) , pharmacy , psychological intervention , community pharmacy , process (computing) , family medicine , medical emergency , nursing , oceanography , computer science , operating system , geology
Focal points The results of a baseline survey of prescribing interventions made by community pharmacists are presented The mean prescription intervention rate in this study was 0.69 % however, there were wide variations in the results between individual community pharmacies Forty‐six interventions (0.08 per cent) were classified by the contributing pharmacist as potentially serious to the patient