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Medication errors: the impact of prescribing and transcribing errors on preventable harm in hospitalised patients.

van Doormaal JE, van den Bemt PMLA, Mol PGM, et al. Medication errors: the impact of prescribing and transcribing errors on preventable harm in hospitalised patients. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18(1):22-7. doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.023812.

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March 4, 2009
van Doormaal JE, van den Bemt PMLA, Mol PGM, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18(1):22-7.
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This study found that only a minority of prescribing and transcribing errors lead to preventable adverse drug events. The authors suggest that future preventive strategies focus on the subset of therapeutic errors, which are the most clinically relevant and are potentially addressed with greater clinical decision support.

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van Doormaal JE, van den Bemt PMLA, Mol PGM, et al. Medication errors: the impact of prescribing and transcribing errors on preventable harm in hospitalised patients. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18(1):22-7. doi:10.1136/qshc.2007.023812.