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  • Pharmacy Practice
  • Patient Safety

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  • Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) systems aim to improve medication safety and efficiency.
  • Despite benefits, e-prescribing errors can occur, posing risks to patient care.
  • Understanding these errors is crucial for optimizing e-prescribing implementation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify common e-prescribing errors in community pharmacies.
  • To determine the potential consequences of these errors.
  • To investigate factors contributing to e-prescribing errors.

Main Methods:

  • Direct observation of 45 hours across five community pharmacies.
  • Follow-up interviews with 20 study participants.
  • Content analysis of observational and interview transcripts using NVivo 10.

Main Results:

  • 75 e-prescription errors detected, with common types including wrong drug quantity, dosing directions, duration, and formulation.
  • Estimated 5% of e-prescriptions contained errors, particularly involving anti-infectives, inhalers, ophthalmic, and topical agents.
  • Consequences included incorrect drug therapy, poor disease management, increased workload, costs, and patient/staff frustration.

Conclusions:

  • A broad spectrum of e-prescribing errors is prevalent in community pharmacies.
  • Contributing factors are multidisciplinary and multifactorial, originating from both prescriber and pharmacy technologies.
  • Addressing technology incompatibility, design flaws, and user input errors is essential.