Table 7.
Analysis of prescribing errors before (epoch 1) and after (epoch 2) phase one of Safer Patients Initiative (SPI1)
| Control hospitals | SPI1 hospitals | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epoch 1 | Epoch 2* | Epoch 1 | Epoch 2* | ||
| No of patients† | 233 | 239 | 381 | 378 | |
| No of prescriptions | 5482 | 6207 | 10664 | 11538 | |
| Prescriptions per patient | 23.5 | 26.0 | 28.0 | 30.5 | |
| Total No of errors | 596 | 564 | 1157 | 1530 | |
| Error rate (SE)‡ | 0.14 (0.02) | 0.11 (0.01) | 0.15 (0.02) | 0.15 (0.01) | |
*After intervention.
†With medication charts available for review.
‡Adjusted for date of review.