New medicine management system could reduce drug prescription errors

Drug prescription errors that put hospital patients at risk can be slashed using a better medicine management system devised by pharmacists at Trinity College Dublin. The new technique completely eliminated the most dangerous errors, those that can be severely harmful to patients, the researchers say in a study. And general medication errors can be reduced by 80 per cent.

The approach involves a much higher degree of collaboration between doctors, pharmacists and patients, said Dr Tamasine Grimes, associate professor in practice of pharmacy in Trinity’s school of pharmacy. She was the principal investigator for the research study. (Times) >