作者
Darren M Ashcroft, Penny J Lewis, Mary P Tully, Tracey M Farragher, David Taylor, Valerie Wass, Steven D Williams, Tim Dornan
发表日期
2015/9
期刊
Drug safety
卷号
38
页码范围
833-843
出版商
Springer International Publishing
简介
Introduction
It has been suggested that doctors in their first year of post-graduate training make a disproportionate number of prescribing errors.
Objective
This study aimed to compare the prevalence of prescribing errors made by first-year post-graduate doctors with that of errors by senior doctors and non-medical prescribers and to investigate the predictors of potentially serious prescribing errors.
Methods
Pharmacists in 20 hospitals over 7 prospectively selected days collected data on the number of medication orders checked, the grade of prescriber and details of any prescribing errors. Logistic regression models (adjusted for clustering by hospital) identified factors predicting the likelihood of prescribing erroneously and the severity of prescribing errors.
Results
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