Medication safety

Recent advances in drug discovery mean that we can now treat more diseases than ever before. However, the growing complexity of the treatments available means that things can sometimes go wrong.

Our research in this area aims to develop and test ways of making prescribing, dispensing, administration and monitoring of medication safer, for patients both at home and in the hospital setting.

Projects

• Antibiotics FMEA
• Antibiotic-related C.difficile
• Automated drug dispensing
• Care homes' use of medicines
• Chemotherapy compounding
• Electronic alert & lab results
• Electronic prescribing
• Errors & paediatric inpatients
• General Practice prescribing
• High alert medications
• Hospital antibiotic use
• Look-alike/sound-alike drugs
• Measuring adverse events
• Medication errors review
• Older people & mental health
• Outpatient antibiotic therapy
• Pharmacist Prescribers
• Prescribing for the elderly
• Prescribing in UK care homes
• ServeRx for elderly medicine
• SPI: Medication errors