Primary care medication safety surveillance with integrated primary and secondary care electronic health records: a cross-sectional study.

Artur Akbarov; Evangelos Kontopantelis; Matthew Sperrin; Susan J. Stocks; Richard Williams; Sarah Rodgers; Anthony Avery; Iain Buchan; Darren M. Ashcroft

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Primary care medication safety surveillance with integrated primary and secondary care electronic health records: a cross-sectional study.

July 22, 2015

Akbarov A, Kontopantelis E, Sperrin M, et al. Drug Saf. 2015;38(7):671-82.

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This cross-sectional study of patient records found that linked primary and secondary care data provides a more robust surveillance of medication safety. Older patients and those prescribed multiple medications were at highest risk for prescribing hazards.

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