Reporting of errors should be free of recrimination

[...]many reports are published anonymously and debated in the pharmaceutical literature. 3 Could a similar system be coordinated nationally by the Committee on Safety of Medicines? A process analogous to the system for reporting adverse drug reactions could be adopted to facilitate the reporting of...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMJ 1995-11, Vol.311 (7016), p.1367-1367
Hauptverfasser: Upton, D R, Cousins, D H
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:[...]many reports are published anonymously and debated in the pharmaceutical literature. 3 Could a similar system be coordinated nationally by the Committee on Safety of Medicines? A process analogous to the system for reporting adverse drug reactions could be adopted to facilitate the reporting of errors of prescribing that result in appreciable morbidity (or, indeed, the reporting of near misses that narrowly avoided causing harm).
ISSN:0959-8138
1468-5833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.311.7016.1367a