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From: On-ward participation of a hospital pharmacist in a Dutch intensive care unit reduces prescribing errors and related patient harm: an intervention study

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Type, incidence and severity of prescribing errors found by intensive care unit hospital pharmacists during the whole study period. Data for prescribing errors found by intensive care unit hospital pharmacists during the whole study period. The severity was scored according to The National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention Taxonomy of Medication Errors (categories B to F). The monitoring error category consists of the following types of prescribing errors: wrong dose according to therapeutic drug monitoring, wrong dose according to laboratory tests, organ function or renal replacement therapy requirements, drug-disease interaction, drug-drug interaction, pharmacologic duplications, unrecognized adverse drug reactions.

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