Reducing prescribing errors

See the Health Foundation’s Reducing Prescribing Errors: Evidence Scan.

It provides a collation of empirical research about initiatives to reduce prescribing errors. It addresses the following questions: What approaches have been used to reduce prescribing errors?;  Have any approaches related to human factors been researched? 

See also the Medication Safety Tools from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices.

ASHP Guidelines: Preventing Medication Errors in Hospitals

Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Near Miss Error Log

National Prescribing Centre’s Reducing medication errors’ resources:

Five-minute guide- Reducing medication errors

Improving safety & managing risk in medicines management systems and processes

Improving quality in prescribing

Medicines reconciliation

MERC rapid review: Electronic prescribing systems significantly reduce prescribing error rates