E-prescribing and medication safety in community settings: A rapid scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medication prescribing is essential for the treatment, curing, maintenance, and/or prevention of an illness and disease, however, medication errors remain common. Common errors including prescribing and administration, pose significant risk to patients. Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) is one intervention used to enhance the safety and quality of prescribing by decreasing medication errors and reducing harm. E-prescribing in community-based settings has not been extensively examined.

Objective

To map and characterize the current evidence on e-prescribing and medication safety in community pharmacy settings.

Methods

We conducted a rapid scoping review of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies reporting on e-prescribing and medicati

SUBMITTER: Cassidy CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10679534 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature