Prevention of medication errors in the pharmacy

• In: Community Pharmacy Section - Poster Session
• At: Cairo (Egypt) (2005)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: CPS-P-047
• By: HERBORG (Pharmakon, R&D, HillerØd, Denmark)
• Co-author(s): Knudsen (Pharmakon, HILLERØD, Denmark)
  Knudsen (Danish Pharmaceutical Assoc., COPENHAGEN, Denmark)
  Mortensen (Danish Pharmaceutical Assoc., COPENHAGEN, Denmark)
  Hellebek (Danish Soc. for Patient Safety, COPENHAGEN, Denmark)
  
• Abstract:

  The purpose of the study was to increase patient safety in use of medicines in primary care.
  
  OBJECTIVES
  
  To measure frequency and type of errors registered in the pharmacies
  
  To estimate the seriousness of the errors
  
  To establish solutions for error prevention
  
  METHODS
  
  40 randomly selected pharmacies performed the data collection from October ..

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