The incidence of prescribing errors in an eye hospital.

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K Mandal,S G Fraser,

BACKGROUND: Relatively little is known about the incidence of prescribing errors and there has been no work on this in a single specialty ophthalmic hospital. Knowing where and when errors are most likely to occur is generally felt to be the first step in trying to prevent these errors. This study is an attempt in, the setting of an eye hospital, to try to identify and attribute these medication errors. METHODS: The study setting was a single specialty eye hospital geographically separated from the main general hospital. Pharmacists prospectively recorded the number of errors of prescribing during a 4 week period at an eye hospital in UK. The errors were categorised as error of prescription writing or drug error. Potential significance of the errors was not addressed. RESULTS: Overall 144/1952 (8%) prescription sheets had errors. 7% of the total errors were errors of prescription writing while 1% were drug errors. The majority of errors were made by junior doctors and no drug errors were made by senior doctors. The outpatients department had by far the highest prevalence of errors. CONCLUSION: Certain areas within the hospital and certain grades of staff are more prone to drug errors. Further study is required to look at the reasons why this is so and what systems can be put in place to reduce these errors.

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PUBLICATION TYPE: Journal Article

Journal: BMC ophthalmology

VOLUME: 5

Page Numbers: 4

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ISSN: 1471-2415

DAY: 22

MONTH: 03

YEAR: 2005

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AFFILIATION: Sunderland Eye Infirmary, Queen Alexandra Road, Sunderland SR2 9HP, UK. kmandal@doctors.org.uk

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