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Table 4 Reduction of incidence of prescribing errors per 1,000 monitored patient-days.

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

 

Baseline

Intervention

Difference (95% CI)

P value

Reduction (%)a

  

First half

Second half

   

Prescribing errors

190.5

62.5

127.9 (89.3 to 166.6)

<0.001

67.1

  

77.8

44.4

33.3 (20.9 to 45.9)

<0.001

42.8

  1. CI, confidence interval. aTwo-sided Fisher exact test.