This audit tool identifies at-risk patients in general practice who are being prescribed drugs that are commonly and consistently associated with medication errors so that corrective action can be taken to reduce the risk of occurrence of these errors.
The PINCER Trial, led by Professor Tony Avery, Professor of Primary Health Care at The University of Nottingham, was developed to test whether a large complex pharmacist-led IT-based intervention compared with simple feedback could reduce medication error rates within the primary care setting. The results of the trial showed that the PINCER intervention is an effective method for reducing a range of clinically important and commonly made medication errors in primary care. The PINCER approach might help prevent unnecessary harm to patients, and might also reduce the costs associated with dealing with prescribing errors, which sometimes require hospital admission.Find out more about the free audit tool here.
PRIMIS Hub members can find out more details, read the documentation and find out more about the original PINCER Trial within PRIMIS Hub.
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