Medication error trends in Middle Eastern countries: A systematic review on healthcare services.

A high rate of prescribing MEs is known to be a worldwide issue.[ 27 28 ] In a previous study made to identify and quantify prescription errors, majority had prescription errors, and this is consistent with our discoveries.[ 29 ] Sixty-five percent of the prescriptions were found to have a total of 1012 errors.[ 29 ] These errors were mostly minor such as spelling, date omissions, and patient information.[ 29 ] Taking into account the per prescription tally error in the Al Khaja et al .'s study[ 12 14 ] , overall a decreasing trend of MEs has been occurring in Bahrain.

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A negative trend was shown in the amount of MEs in the vast majority of the nations under the examination.

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