Pharmacist-assisted electronic prescribing at the time of admission to an inpatient orthopaedic unit and its impact on medication errors: a pre- and postintervention study

• Main Authors: Tim Tran (Author), Simone E. Taylor (Author), Andrew Hardidge (Author), Elise Mitri (Author), Parnaz Aminian (Author), Johnson George (Author), Rohan A. Elliott (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Prescribing and administration errors related to pre-admission medications are common amongst orthopaedic inpatients. Postprescribing medication reconciliation by clinical pharmacists after hospital admission prevents some but not all errors from reaching the patient. Involving pharmacis...