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Investigating the epidemiology of medication errors in adults in community care settings

A retrospective cohort study in central Saudi Arabia

Ghadah A. Assiri, Abdullah HM Alkhenizan, Salma M. Al-Khani, Liz M. Grant and Aziz Sheikh
Saudi Medical Journal February 2019, 40 (2) 158-167; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.2.23933
Ghadah A. Assiri
From the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Assiri), College of Pharmacy, from the Prince Abdullah bin Khalid Celiac Disease Research Chair (Assiri), College of Medicine, King Saud University, from the Department of Family Medicine and Polyclinic (Alkhenizan), from the Pharmaceutical Services Division (Al-Khani), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; from the Centre for Population Health Sciences and Informatics (Assiri, Sheikh), The Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, from the Global Health and Global Health Academy (Grant), Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
B Pharm, MSc
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  • For correspondence: [email protected]
Abdullah HM Alkhenizan
From the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Assiri), College of Pharmacy, from the Prince Abdullah bin Khalid Celiac Disease Research Chair (Assiri), College of Medicine, King Saud University, from the Department of Family Medicine and Polyclinic (Alkhenizan), from the Pharmaceutical Services Division (Al-Khani), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; from the Centre for Population Health Sciences and Informatics (Assiri, Sheikh), The Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, from the Global Health and Global Health Academy (Grant), Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
MD, CCFP
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Salma M. Al-Khani
From the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Assiri), College of Pharmacy, from the Prince Abdullah bin Khalid Celiac Disease Research Chair (Assiri), College of Medicine, King Saud University, from the Department of Family Medicine and Polyclinic (Alkhenizan), from the Pharmaceutical Services Division (Al-Khani), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; from the Centre for Population Health Sciences and Informatics (Assiri, Sheikh), The Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, from the Global Health and Global Health Academy (Grant), Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
B.Pharm, MHHA
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Liz M. Grant
From the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Assiri), College of Pharmacy, from the Prince Abdullah bin Khalid Celiac Disease Research Chair (Assiri), College of Medicine, King Saud University, from the Department of Family Medicine and Polyclinic (Alkhenizan), from the Pharmaceutical Services Division (Al-Khani), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; from the Centre for Population Health Sciences and Informatics (Assiri, Sheikh), The Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, from the Global Health and Global Health Academy (Grant), Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Aziz Sheikh
From the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Assiri), College of Pharmacy, from the Prince Abdullah bin Khalid Celiac Disease Research Chair (Assiri), College of Medicine, King Saud University, from the Department of Family Medicine and Polyclinic (Alkhenizan), from the Pharmaceutical Services Division (Al-Khani), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; from the Centre for Population Health Sciences and Informatics (Assiri, Sheikh), The Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, from the Global Health and Global Health Academy (Grant), Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
MD, MBBS
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vol. 40 no. 2 158-167
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.2.23933
PubMed 
30723861

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received October 16, 2018
  • Accepted January 1, 2019
  • Published online February 1, 2019.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Ghadah A. Assiri, B Pharm, MSc⇑,
  2. Abdullah HM Alkhenizan, MD, CCFP,
  3. Salma M. Al-Khani, B.Pharm, MHHA,
  4. Liz M. Grant, PhD, MA and
  5. Aziz Sheikh, MD, MBBS
  1. From the Department of Clinical Pharmacy (Assiri), College of Pharmacy, from the Prince Abdullah bin Khalid Celiac Disease Research Chair (Assiri), College of Medicine, King Saud University, from the Department of Family Medicine and Polyclinic (Alkhenizan), from the Pharmaceutical Services Division (Al-Khani), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; from the Centre for Population Health Sciences and Informatics (Assiri, Sheikh), The Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, from the Global Health and Global Health Academy (Grant), Centre for Population Health Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Ghadah A. Assiri, The Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. E-mail: S1373565{at}ed.ac.uk ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7274-5704
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