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How to make medication error reporting systems work—factors associated with their successful development and implementation.

Holmström AR, Laaksonen R, Airaksinen M. Health Policy. 2015 Mar 11; [Epub ahead of print].

A survey of 16 international medication safety experts identified the critical factors for improving the performance of medication error reporting systems. The recommendations focused on the operating environment of error reporting systems—for example, taking steps to improve safety culture—rather than the technical specifications of the systems.

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