Exploring the relationship between safety culture and reported dispensing errors in a large sample of Swedish community pharmacies
Open Access
- 13 August 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Vol. 13 (1) , 4
Abstract
The potential for unsafe acts to result in harm to patients is constant risks to be managed in any health care delivery system including pharmacies. The number of reported errors is influenced by a various elements including safety culture. The aim of this study is to investigate a possible relationship between reported dispensing errors and safety culture, taking into account demographic and pharmacy variables, in Swedish community pharmacies.Keywords
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