Pharmacists' interventions in prescribing errors at hospital discharge: an observational study in the context of an electronic prescribing system in a UK teaching hospital.

Derar H. Abdel-Qader; Lindsay Harper; Judith A. Cantrill; Mary P. Tully

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Pharmacists' interventions in prescribing errors at hospital discharge: an observational study in the context of an electronic prescribing system in a UK teaching hospital.

November 3, 2010

Abdel-Qader DH, Harper L, Cantrill JA, et al. Drug Saf. 2010;33(11):1027-44.

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Prescribing errors remained relatively common at hospital discharge in this study, despite the presence of computerized provider order entry and the use of pharmacists to review discharge medication orders.

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