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Hospital pharmacy: A new relationship

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Rania T, McIntosh B & West S (2014) Hospital pharmacy: A new relationship. Nurse Prescribing, 12 (4). https://doi.org/10.12968/npre.2014.12.4.172

Abstract
There are 353 NHShospitals in the UnitedKingdom, and within thesehospitals there is widevariation in the electronicprescribing systems applied.Indeed, only one hospitaluses a single system in all ofits clinical areas. Medicationerror is the biggest issue inthe health care profession inrespect to patient safety—

Keywords
Hospital pharmacy Electronic prescribing systems Medication error Patient safety Prescription errors E-prescribing National Health Service (NHS) Quality of care

StatusPublished
Publication date31/12/2014
Publication date online16/04/2014
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/6510
ISSN1479-9189
eISSN2052-2924