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Ambulatory medication safety in primary care: a systematic review.
July 6, 2022
Young RA, Fulda KG, Espinoza A, et al. J Am Board Fam Med. 2022;35(3):610-628.
Identifying barriers and facilitators of medication safety is a patient safety research priority. In this systematic review characterizing the research on medication safety in primary care, researchers found that the majority of studies focused on high-risk populations (such as older adults with polypharmacy) and measured potential harms (such as potentially inappropriate prescribing or potential prescribing omissions) rather than actual harms.
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