Analysis of Australian newspaper coverage of medication errors.

Reece Hinchcliff; Johanna I. Westbrook; David Greenfield; Melissa Baysari; Max Moldovan; Jeffrey Braithwaite

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Analysis of Australian newspaper coverage of medication errors.

December 29, 2014

Hinchcliff R, Westbrook JI, Greenfield D, et al. Int J Qual Health Care. 2012;24(1):1-8.

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This study analyzed media coverage of medication errors in Australian newspapers and found that most articles simply reported on errors with little discussion of potential solutions or steps patients could take to minimize error risk.

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