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Quality of medication use in primary care - mapping the problem, working to a solution: a systematic review of the literature

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Title
Quality of medication use in primary care - mapping the problem, working to a solution: a systematic review of the literature
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BMC Medicine, September 2009
DOI 10.1186/1741-7015-7-50
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Authors

Sara Garfield, Nick Barber, Paul Walley, Alan Willson, Lina Eliasson

Abstract

The UK, USA and the World Health Organization have identified improved patient safety in healthcare as a priority. Medication error has been identified as one of the most frequent forms of medical error and is associated with significant medical harm. Errors are the result of the systems that produce them. In industrial settings, a range of systematic techniques have been designed to reduce error and waste. The first stage of these processes is to map out the whole system and its reliability at each stage. However, to date, studies of medication error and solutions have concentrated on individual parts of the whole system. In this paper we wished to conduct a systematic review of the literature, in order to map out the medication system with its associated errors and failures in quality, to assess the strength of the evidence and to use approaches from quality management to identify ways in which the system could be made safer.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 2%
Ireland 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Saudi Arabia 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 196 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 39 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 32 15%
Researcher 19 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 8%
Student > Bachelor 15 7%
Other 50 24%
Unknown 36 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 67 32%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 27 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 5%
Social Sciences 11 5%
Engineering 9 4%
Other 35 17%
Unknown 47 23%
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