Prescribing Errors in UK Hospitals: Problems and Solutions
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Traditionally in UK medical schools, teaching of therapeutics and prescribing has been weak. Almost 40% UK medical schools do not teach therapeutics at all. Of the others, the majority do not teach therapeutics per se, but have a “vertical strand” running through the clinical course. The EQUIP survey carried out in 19 UK hospitals on behalf of the GMC (and which, inexplicably, remains unpublished in a peer reviewed format) found a prescribing error rate of 8.9% in 124,260 hospital drug prescriptions.
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