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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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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
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Ghadah A. Assiri, Abdullah HM Alkhenizan, Salma M. Al-Khani, Liz M. Grant, Aziz Sheikh
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