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Hospital pharmacist-led re-evaluation of medication errors: a pilot study

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Karl-Johan Lindner and Marie Halvarsson, from the pharmacy at Västerås Hospital in Sweden, describe a new approach to improve the categorisation of medication errors that uses the skills of hospital pharmacists to reclassify reported incidents based on a given medication process. One million injections or infusions and 1.7

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Understanding the evidence used in drug product withdrawals

European Pharmaceutical Review

Between 1999 and 2001, it supported 17 percent of withdrawals, between 2002 and 2011, it supported 26 percent of withdrawals and by 2012 to 2016, 80 percent of withdrawals were supported by observational studies (cohort, case-control, or other epidemiologic design). Meta-analyses contributed least frequently (31.4 As of October 2023, 62.93