A NEW pharmacist-led dashboard intervention has been shown to help in preventing hazardous prescribing in primary care settings.
Medication errors that lead to adverse drug events can be prevented but continue to represent a major problem in hospitals worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The third WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm highlighted the critical nature of the problem, including the economic burden estimated to be in the order of US$42b globally and in the UK alone, costing NHS England approximately 500m per year.
According to a report in the Pharmaceutical Journal, a new dashboard referencing prescribers, flagging specific high-risk drugs, forcing drug review and alerting to potential drug interactions can prevent these errors.
See pharmaceutical-journal.com.
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