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Medication errors: prescribing faults and prescription errors

Prescribing faults and prescription errors are major problems among medication errors. They occur both in general practice and in hospital, and although they are rarely fatal they can affect patients' safety and quality of healthcare. A definition states that a ‘clinically meaningful prescribing error occurs when … there is an unintentional significant reduction in the probability of treatment being timely and effective or increase in the risk of harm when compared with generally accepted practice’.