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Table 4 Types of Pharmacists Interventions Related to PEs (n = 2564)

From: Description of pharmacists’ reported interventions to prevent prescribing errors among in hospital inpatients: a cross sectional retrospective study

Type of Intervention

No.

(%)

Dose adjustment

1,128

44.0

Restricted medication approval

562

21.9

Therapeutic duplication

281

11.0

Renal dosing interventions

249

9.7

Optimize therapy monitoring

174

6.8

IV to PO conversiona

53

2.1

Contraindicated drugs

48

1.9

Drug interaction

46

1.8

Untreated Indications

9

0.4

No indication for therapy

8

0.3

Adverse Drug Event

4

0.2

Others

2

0.1

  1. aIV  Intravenous; PEs Prescribing Errors; PO Oral