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Understanding the attitudes of hospital pharmacists to reporting medication incidents: a qualitative study.

January 16, 2013

Williams SD, Phipps D, Ashcroft DM. Res Social Adm Pharm. 2013;9(1):80-9.

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This qualitative study identified a culture of low expectations among hospital pharmacists with regard to voluntary error reporting systems. Pharmacists admitted that systems were underused but ascribed this to the high prevalence of medication errors and the low likelihood of receiving feedback after reporting an error.

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