Pharmacists enhance medication safety in hospitals and ambulatory settings. The authors interviewed pharmacists about their experience implementing a dashboard that allowed them to identify and provide feedback regarding hazardous medication prescribing in primary care. A WebM&M commentary describes other pharmacy-led efforts to make prescribing safer.

Medically complex patients experience more safety hazards than their healthier peers. This ethnographic study described the safety experience of 26 medically complex British adults. Physicians and patients alike struggled to achieve a balance between underinvestigating health concerns and risking diagnostic delays and overinvestigating health concerns and exposing patients to unnecessary testing.

Patient safety in ambulatory care is receiving increased attention. In this qualitative study, researchers interviewed 26 patients over the age of 65 with multiple comorbid medical conditions to better understand perceived threats to patient safety in primary care among this population.

This case report describes a vincristine administration error and recommends strategies to prevent similar incidents.