Abstract
In 2007 a headline in the Sunday Times proclaimed that junior doctors “risk lives with prescriptions” [1]. Clearly concerns about the safety of junior doctors are no longer restricted to professional reports or journals [2, 3]. To put these concerns into context, a standard of 99% reliability in the aviation industry would result in 13 aircraft crashing at Heathrow every day, yet the reliability of prescribing and medicine administration is well below 75%, with reports of 1-2 errors every drug round per day [4]…..
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 36-39 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | International Journal of Clinical Skills |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |