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Causes in community settings
• Pharmacy workload
• Reduced staffing
• Insufficient pharmacist training or lack of continued
professional development
• Poor communication between pharmacists and doctors
(and patients in Egypt, no pt counseling)
• Overreliance on automated systems (not n Egypt)
• Poor documentation
• Poor pharmacy organization
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Examples Problems associated with
of errors prescribing, communicating, labeling,
and therapy monitoring.
• Prescribing the wrong
medication.(hand writing/ look alike
and sound alike medicines , ISMP)
• Prescribing the right medication,
but giving the wrong
dosage.(decimals, abbreviations)
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