Physicians' medication prescribing in primary care in Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia. Literature review, part 3: prescribing errors

摘要: Medication errors are globally huge in magnitude and associated with high morbidity mortality together costs legal problems. caused by multiple factors related to health providers, consumers system, but most prescribing preventable. This paper is the third of 3 review articles that form background for a series 5 interconnected studies patterns medication public private primary care sectors Saudi Arabia. A MEDLINE search was conducted identify papers published peer-reviewed journals over previous decades. The reviews etiology, prevention strategies, reporting mechanisms myriad consequences errors.