Medication Errors in the Older Adult Population: A Systematic Review

• At: 2017 FIP Congress in Stockholm (Sweden)
• Type: Poster
• By: KHAN, Tahir Mehmood (Monash University Malaysia, School of Pharmacy, Sunway City, Malaysia)
• Co-author(s): Vanni Caruso: Division of Pharmacy, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
  Long Chiau Ming: Division of Pharmacy, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
  Shahrzad Salmasi: School of Pharmacy, Monash University, Sunway City, Malaysia
  Barbara Wimmer: Division of Pharmacy, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
  Tahir Mehmood Khan: School of Pharmacy, Monash University, Sunway City, Malaysia
  
• Abstract:

  Backgrounds

  The geriatric population is expected to be 1.2 billion by 2025, reaching almost one-quarter of the world population today. 

  Aims

  To systematically review studies investigating the incidence or prevalence and types of medication error (ME) in older people and medications involved in MEs. 

  Methods

  A comprehensive, electronic search was

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