Improving the quality of drug error reporting.

Gerry Armitage; Robert Newell; John Wright

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Improving the quality of drug error reporting.

September 22, 2010

Armitage G, Newell R, Wright J. J Eval Clin Pract. 2010;16(6):1189-97.

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This analysis of voluntarily reported medication errors found that the reports often did not yield useful data. The authors make suggestions, based on error theory, to improve reporting systems to enhance the ease of reporting and the quality of error reports.

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