Multicomponent compliance aids (pill boxes or medi-sets) organize patients' medications in a compartmentalized container, with one compartment for each dosing occasion. Ideally, the aid is prefilled by a pharmacist or caregiver. The aids are intended to improve medication safety and adherence for patients taking multiple medications, but this British study found that elderly patients using these systems still used inappropriate medications at high rates.

The causative factors leading to medication prescribing errors by resident physicians were elucidated through a qualitative approach that focused on identifying latent errors.

This review analyzed research on prescribing errors among physicians in training and found that the problem exists regardless of delivery system, training modality, or organizational infrastructure. The authors call for a well-conducted study of such errors to allow development and evaluation of appropriate interventions.

The investigators issued questionnaires to parents in seven community pharmacies to prospectively monitor pediatric adverse drug reactions (ADRs). They found that the system was effective for reporting ADRs.