"Doctor, would it surprise you if there were prescribing errors in this patient's medication?" Identifying eligible patients for in-hospital pharmacotherapeutic stewardship: A matched case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evaluating a patient's medication list is critical to reduce prescribing errors (PEs), but is a labour- and time-intensive process. Identification of patients at risk of PEs could improve the allocation of scarce time and resources, but currently available prediction tools are not effective.

Objective

To investigate whether ward doctors can identify patients at risk of PEs.

Methods

This prospective matched case-control study was conducted on three clinical wards in an academic hospital. Otolaryngology and oncology ward doctors used clinical intuition to select patients requiring a clinical medication review (CMR) (cases). These patients were then matched 1:1 on age (±10 years) and number (±1) of prescriptions with patients not selected for CMRs on the inter

SUBMITTER: Mahomedradja RF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11862803 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature