Electronic prescribing
July 31, 2014
NEW research out of the
UK compared the prevalence
and types of dispensing errors
and pharmacists’ labelling
enhancements for prescriptions
transmitted electronically versus
paper prescriptions.
Published in the August edition
of British Medical Journal of
Quality and Safety, the researchers
looked at 16,357 dispensed items
identifying labelling errors in
5.4%, content errors in 1.4% and
pharmacist initiated enhancements
in 13.6% of scripts.
Electronically transmitted
prescriptions had a higher
prevalence of labelling errors
(7.4% of 3,733 items) than paper
prescriptions (4.8% of 12,624).
Community pharmacists made
labelling enhancements to about
one in seven dispensed items,
whether electronically transmitted
or not, the authors said.
More collaboration between
pharmacists and other stakeholders
was encouraged.
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