Medication prescription profile and hospital admission related to medication administration errors in England and Wales: an ecological study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the correlation between prescribing rate of medications and hospital admissions related to medications administration errors in England and Wales during the time from 1999 to 2020.

Design

An ecological study.

Setting

A population-based study using hospital admission data that are publicly available in the UK. Data in this study were extracted from the Hospital Episode Statistics database in England and the Patient Episode Database in Wales from Wales. The Prescription Cost Analysis database was used to extract the prescription data.

Participants

Patients who were hospitalised all National Health Service (NHS) trusts and any independent sector funded by NHS trusts.

Primary outcome measure

Hospitalisation rates related to medication ad

SUBMITTER: Al Shoaraa OA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10660783 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature