and some 10% to 15% of all emergency room visits are related to medication reactions or drug interaction problems in seniors. Part of the problem is that many people over 65 see multiple physicians.
Most errors resulted from multiple system failures, with insufficient drug knowledge causing 29%. Jha et al. [5] compared chart review with other methods of studying medication errors. The largest ...
Background: Prescribing errors are common in hospital settings. Regular review of medication charts is recommended as a way to reduce errors but it is not clear how often this happens. The aim of ...