Bmc Health Serv Res
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Specialty-specific data on career satisfaction may be useful for understanding physician workforce trends and for counseling medical students about career options. ⋯ Career satisfaction varied across specialties. A number of stakeholders will likely be interested in these findings including physicians in specialties that rank high and low and students contemplating specialty. Our findings regarding "less satisfied" specialties should elicit concern from residency directors and policy makers since they appear to be in critical areas of medicine.
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Bmc Health Serv Res · Sep 2009
Medication safety in community pharmacy: a qualitative study of the sociotechnical context.
While much research has been conducted on medication safety, few of these studies have addressed primary care, despite the high volume of prescribing and dispensing of medicines that occurs in this setting. Those studies that have examined primary care dispensing emphasised the need to understand the role of sociotechnical factors (that is, the interactions between people, tasks, equipment and organisational structures) in promoting or preventing medication incidents. The aim of this study was to identify sociotechnical factors that community pharmacy staff encounter in practice, and suggest how these factors might impact on medication safety. ⋯ It is recommended that the issues raised in this study be considered in future work examining medication safety in primary care.