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BRITISH JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 67, Issue 6, Pages 687-690Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2009.03426.x
Keywords
detection; medication errors; pharmacovigilance centres; poison control centres; prevention; root cause analysis
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2. The results showed that through their databases pharmacovigilance centres can detect, identify, analyse, and classify medication errors and carry out root cause analysis, which is an important tool in preventing medication errors. 3. The duties of pharmacovigilance centres in preventing medication errors include informing health-care professionals about the importance of reporting such errors and creating a culture of patient safety. Pharmacovigilance centres aim to prevent medication errors in collaboration with poison control centres. Such collaboration allows improved detection and improved preventive strategies. In addition, collaboration with regulatory authorities is important in finalizing decisions. 4. Collaboration between pharmacovigilance centres and poison control centres should be strengthened and bridges need to be built linking pharmacovigilance centres, poison control centres, and organizations dedicated to patient safety, in order to avoid duplication of workload.
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