Table 2 Prescribing errors presented according to the stage of the prescribing process.

Stage of prescribing process	Pre‐intervention number of errors (% of medication orders)	Post‐intervention number of errors (% of medication orders)
Need for drug treatment	20 (0.8)	12 (0.5)
Select specific drug	2 (0.1)	0
Select drug dose	45 (1.8)	29 (1.2)
Select formulation	3 (0.1)	5 (0.2
Give instructions for supply of product	13 (0.5)	0
Give administration instructions	10 (0.4)	2 (0.1)
Total	93 (3.8)	48 (2.0)