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3723 (excl. abstract of 250) words).

Conflict of interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Funding information

The Medication Commission of Amsterdam UMC funded this project.

Keywords

Medication safety; prescribing errors; prediction tools.

Principal Investigator statement

The authors confirm that the Principal Investigator for this paper is Jelle Tichelaar.

Ethics approval and consent to participate

This study and all its methods were performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The Medical Ethics Review Board of the Amsterdam UMC – location VUmc approved the study procedures (no.2021.0090 ).
This study was conducted to evaluate and improve medication safety in an academic hospital and involved adult patients. Their medication was evaluated by a multidisciplinary pharmacotherapeutic stewardship team, resulting in the detection of potential prescribing errors that could lead to patient harm. There was no direct involvement of patients in the study, and no (additional) burden for patients. The results were used to improve in-hospital medication safety for current and future patients. Under Dutch law and approved by the Medical Ethics Review Board of the Amsterdam UMC – location VUmc, it was not necessary to obtain informed consent from subjects.