Medication incidents in primary care medicine: a prospective study in the Swiss Sentinel Surveillance Network (Sentinella).
Markus GnädingerDieter ConenLilli HerzigMilo Alan PuhanAlfred StaehelinMarco ZollerAlessandro CeschiPublished in: BMJ open (2017)
Medication incidents are common in adult primary care, whereas they rarely occur in paediatrics. Older and multimorbid patients are at a particularly high risk for medication incidents. Reasons for medication incidents are diverse but often seem to be linked to communication problems.