Word count
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.