Pharmacy students are superior to medical or nursing students when it comes to correctly identifying common medication errors, new research shows.
A US study of 175 medical, pharmacy and nursing students was the first to investigate their ability to identify common medication errors, including prescribing the incorrect medicine or dosage.
Study participants completed questionnaires evaluating the accuracy of three prescriptions and indicating the type of errors they found, without access to reference materials.
Almost half (43 per cent) of the pharmacy students were able to correctly identify errors in all three prescriptions, compared with 7.5 per cent of nursing students and 9.8 per cent of medical students.
Pharmacy students were also more likely to correctly identify the type of prescribing error with 80...
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