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Initiatives to identify and mitigate medication errors in England.

Cousins D, Gerrett D, Richards N, Jadeja MM. Drug Saf. 2015 Mar 4; [Epub ahead of print].

Open communication about adverse drug events and learning from them enable health care systems to reduce medication errors. This commentary highlights a United Kingdom initiative to implement requirements for collecting and sharing incident data about medication errors and to create opportunities for system feedback while enabling learning from errors at the local level.

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