European journal of clinical pharmacology
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Eur. J. Clin. Pharmacol. · Nov 2015
Medication errors detected in non-traditional databases: types of errors in methotrexate dosing as listed in four different Danish registers.
We have looked for medication errors involving the use of low-dose methotrexate, by extracting information from Danish sources other than traditional pharmacovigilance databases. We used the data to establish the relative frequencies of different types of errors. ⋯ The medication errors in this survey were most often action-based (50%) and knowledge-based (34%), suggesting that greater attention should be paid to education and surveillance of medical personnel who prescribe and monitor methotrexate, particularly physicians, who accounted for 40% of the errors.