Prescription Errors in a Mental Healthcare Facility: A Content Analysis of Brief Interviews
Charalambos Dokos, Jost Eberlein, Olympia Konstantakopoulou, Alexandra Skitsou, Petros Galanis, Georgios Charalambous, Kyriakoula Manaridou · 2026
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Dokos and colleagues investigated in 2026 prescription errors inside a regional psychiatric hospital in Germany. As part of a year-long study, the team reviewed treatment plans at St. Josef hospital in Oberhausen. They identified errors by a modified EQUIP method, then interviewed prescribers in a double-blind way and built a codebook of error themes.
From 6,020 treatment plans, 150 errors were detected, an error rate of about two and a half percent. A Delphi consensus process clarified the nature of each error type. The authors argue that psychiatric prescribing has its own error profile shaped by ward routines and drug mix. Understanding those circumstances, they say, is the first step to targeted safety work in mental health facilities.
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| CREATOR | Charalambos Dokos, Jost Eberlein, Olympia Konstantakopoulou, Alexandra Skitsou, Petros Galanis, Georgios Charalambous, Kyriakoula Manaridou |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |