BACKGROUND There is widespread interest in improving medication safety, particularly in the hospital setting. Numerous suggestions have been made as to how this should be done, but there is a paucity of data demonstrating the effectiveness of any of the interventions that have been proposed. OBJECTIVES To assess the impact of a wide ranging, community hospital based patient safety program on ...

OBJECTIVE To explore and understand participants' perceptions and attitudes towards the reporting of medication errors (MEs). METHODS A qualitative study using in-depth interviews of 31 healthcare practitioners from nine publicly funded, primary care clinics in three states in peninsular Malaysia was conducted for this study. The participants included family medicine specialists, doctors, pha...