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Knowledge, attitude and practice on medication error reporting among health practitioners in a tertiary care setting in Saudi Arabia

Salma L. Alsulami, Habibah O. Sardidi, Raghad S. Almuzaini, Malak A. Alsaif, Hanin S. Almuzaini, Afaf K. Moukaddem and Mubashar S. Kharal
Saudi Medical Journal March 2019, 40 (3) 246-251; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.3.23960
Salma L. Alsulami
From the College of Medicine (Alsulami, Sardidi, Almuzaini R, Alsaif, Almuzaini H), from the Department of Medical Education (Moukaddem), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, and from the Department of Medication Safety (Kharal), National Guard Health Affairs, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Habibah O. Sardidi
From the College of Medicine (Alsulami, Sardidi, Almuzaini R, Alsaif, Almuzaini H), from the Department of Medical Education (Moukaddem), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, and from the Department of Medication Safety (Kharal), National Guard Health Affairs, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Raghad S. Almuzaini
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Malak A. Alsaif
From the College of Medicine (Alsulami, Sardidi, Almuzaini R, Alsaif, Almuzaini H), from the Department of Medical Education (Moukaddem), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, and from the Department of Medication Safety (Kharal), National Guard Health Affairs, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Hanin S. Almuzaini
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Afaf K. Moukaddem
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Mubashar S. Kharal
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vol. 40 no. 3 246-251
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.3.23960
PubMed 
30834419

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received November 19, 2018
  • Accepted January 28, 2019
  • Published online March 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. Salma L. Alsulami, MBBS⇑,
  2. Habibah O. Sardidi, MBBS,
  3. Raghad S. Almuzaini, MBBS,
  4. Malak A. Alsaif, MBBS,
  5. Hanin S. Almuzaini, MBBS,
  6. Afaf K. Moukaddem, MS and
  7. Mubashar S. Kharal, MD
  1. From the College of Medicine (Alsulami, Sardidi, Almuzaini R, Alsaif, Almuzaini H), from the Department of Medical Education (Moukaddem), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, and from the Department of Medication Safety (Kharal), National Guard Health Affairs, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Salma L. Alsulami, College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: alsulamisalma994{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9839-8499
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