Publications by authors named "Anna Schoultz"
Article Synopsis
- Medication errors pose serious risks to patient safety, especially in outpatient care, where improvements are crucial.
- Community pharmacies have the potential to enhance medication safety by collaborating more with other health and social care systems.
- A study categorized 83 prioritized research needs into five main themes, emphasizing collaboration and care pathways as key areas for improvement in medication safety management.
Background: Community pharmacies are responsible for dispensing of medicines and related counselling in outpatient care. Dispensing practices have remarkably changed over time, but little is known about how the changes have influenced medication safety. This national study investigated trends in dispensing errors (DEs) related to prescribed medicines, which were reported in Finnish community pharmacies within a 6-year period.
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