Which non-technical skills do junior doctors require to prescribe safely? A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Prescribing errors are a major source of avoidable morbidity and mortality. Junior doctors write most in-hospital prescriptions and are the least experienced members of the healthcare team. This puts them at high risk of error and makes them attractive targets for interventions to improve prescription safety. Error analysis has shown a background of complex environments with multiple contributory conditions. Similar conditions in other high risk industries, such as aviation, have led to an increased understanding of so-called human factors and the use of non-technical skills (NTS) training to try to reduce error. To date no research has examined the NTS required for safe prescribing. The aim of this review was to develop a prototype NTS taxonomy for safe prescribing, by junior

SUBMITTER: Dearden E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4693490 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature