Background: Prescribing errors are common in hospital settings. Regular review of medication charts is recommended as a way to reduce errors but it is not clear how often this happens. The aim of this ...

A new national medication chart being piloted in Adelaide from today promises to make prescribing and administering drugs to patients safer. The in-patient medication chart will become a mandatory ...

We found that a significant proportion of medication charts were not reviewed by physicians on their ward rounds. We are not aware of other studies that have looked at this. This may reflect the ...