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Methodological variability in detecting prescribing errors and consequences for the evaluation of interventions.
September 2, 2009
Franklin BD, Birch S, Savage I, et al. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2009;18(11):992-9.
Four different strategies for identification of medication errors—prospective identification by pharmacists, retrospective chart review, use of a trigger tool, and voluntary reporting—each yielded a different estimate of the incidence of errors.
