In patients with impaired renal function, drug dose adjustment is often required. Non‐
adherence to clinical prescribing recommendations may result in severe adverse events. In …

Reporting of adverse incidents is mandatory in Denmark. All reported adverse incidents are
made anonymously, and stored in an encrypted database. It is the purpose of this …

Aims We have looked for medication errors involving the use of low-dose methotrexate, by
extracting information from Danish sources other than traditional pharmacovigilance …

Objectives Medicine label design plays an important role in improving patient safety. This
study aimed at identifying facilitators and barriers in a medicine label system to prevent …

22 papers on clinical decision support (CDS) for computer physician order entry (CPOE) and
the ability to reduce medication errors were reviewed. Among the 22 original clinical trials …

Objectives To investigate medication errors related to misinterpretation of a new drug label
designed with a focus on reducing the risk of medication errors which introduced nine …

In 2003, Denmark was the first country in the world to adopt a law on patient safety that
obligated hospital staff to report, the hospitals to react and the National Board of Health to …

Since 2001 when the systematic analysis of serious patient safety incidents was
implemented, a number of root cause analyses have been completed. Common to these is …

The purpose of this study is to examine how everyday use of the Computerised Physician
Order Entry (CPOE) system in the Capital Region of Denmark has led to medication errors …

Materials and methods H: S developed an action plan and a reporting system for adverse
events, founded an organization and developed an educational program on theories and …