Most safety incidents can be categorised into four main areas: diagnosis, prescribing, communication between health care providers and patients, and organisational issues (i.e. safety climate/training, event reporting).
As well as increased knowledge students reported the experience improved their practical skills in prescribing, communication and team working.
Such events may be related to professional practice, health care products, procedures, and systems, including prescribing; order communication; product labelling, packaging, and nomenclature; compounding; dispensing; distribution; administration; education; monitoring; and use.
Ward nurses were mentioned as a source of guidance both for prescribing and communication with relatives.
The STAR Program is grounded in a clear theoretical framework[ 12], incorporating development work from the fields of microbiology, prescribing, education, communication, and behavioural sciences[ 13].
This study builds on a considerable amount of development work and integrates practice antibiotic prescribing and antimicrobial resistance data with innovative developments in the fields of microbiology, prescribing, education, communication and behavioural sciences, into a single, yet flexible intervention.
There is evidence that it is not technical errors in dialysis but non-technical errors in communication, prescribing and in the recognition and management of common medical problems such as hyperkalaemia that result in the most severe harm to dialysis patients [ 2].
58 As our findings from Clover illustrate, even in a well defined routine with clear lines of two way communication, prescribing clerks who are afforded relatively little autonomy may (understandably) fail to raise alerts when they see what they regard as undesirable practice.
23 Overuse of methadone may be a marker of less rigorous follow-up and communication between prescribing general practitioners and dispensing community pharmacists.
Acceptance may be increased through the development of an all-in-one package on the handheld, allowing additional functionality such as decision support, billing, electronic prescribing and communication.
There is a clear need for multifaceted interventions that target village doctors, to improve prescribing and communication, as well as the general public, to improve health-seeking behaviours and promote responsible individual use of antibiotics.
