Drugs associated with quality-related events reported by community pharmacies in Nova Scotia, Canada

[摘要] Twenty years since its publication, the Institute of Medicine’s report, To Err is Human:Building a Safer Health System,1 has generatedmuch attention towards identifying safetyissues in healthcare. Quality-related events(QREs) are those medication incidents thatreach the patient as well as incidents that areintercepted prior to dispensing.2While considerable progress has been indocumenting the magnitude of QREs in theinpatient setting, less is known about QREs incommunity pharmacy. In 2018, Campbell andcolleagues coauthored a systematic reviewand meta-analysis of community pharmacyerrors.3 Only nine studies met the inclusioncriteria, the majority of which were of shortduration (all but one were 40 weeks or less)and included a small number of prescriptions (all but one included less than 13000prescriptions). Significant heterogeneity wasidentified among the studies.To address this knowledge gap, we analysedQREs reported by community pharmacies inone Canadian province over a 7-year periodand identified the drugs associated withharm.

[学科分类] 药学

[关键词] medication safety;medical error;measurement/epidemiology;patient safety;pharmacists