Medication errors: a baseline survey of dispensing errors reported in community pharmacies

The results of a baseline survey of medication errors made by community pharmacists are presented The mean error rate in this study was 0.26 % however, there was considerable variation in error rate between pharmacies Almost half of the pharmacists indicated that they had under‐reported errors that had occurred in their pharmacy Of the errors reported, the majority were classified as a nearmiss, and relatively few reached the patient