Boots says that its analysis indicates it has one of the lowest percentages of errors in the community pharmacy sector where harm was reported.
This indicates the existence of HIV unscreened errors in the community.
A report regarding the medication safety scheme from Tallaght Hospital in Dublin revealed that nearly 15% of 102 prescribing errors in the community setting reported involved patient harm [ 19].
As elsewhere [ 8, 19], there is need to conduct population-based study to determine the pattern of refractive errors in this community.
Adequate correction of refractive errors reduces visual impairment and avoidable blindness and to achieve optimal control of refractive errors in the community, services should be targeted at individuals in the peri-adolescent and the middle age years.
The inappropriate use of medicines by self-medicating consumers is reported to be a factor contributing to medication errors in the community, either alone or in combination with other factors [ 11].
Internationally, estimates of dispensing error rates in community pharmacies vary from 0.04%1to24%24% 5 of dispensed items, the wide variation at least partly due to differences in methods and definitions.
The method is equally useful in avoiding type 2 errors, as in Communities 2 and 4. Community 2 shows a dramatic rise in the variability of enteric services, which points to public health concerns deserving further investigation.
