BMJ, published 7 February 2008.
Editorials by: Dr James McLay, senior lecturer in medicine and therapeutics et al, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Aberdeen
- Association with depression and burn-out remains uncertain.
- Preventing medication errors and improving patient safety are important goals, which require a better understanding of the complex personal and systems factors involved in generating errors.
- The results reported by Fahrenkopf and colleagues are far from conclusive.
- Large, prospective, and appropriately designed studies are needed to clarify the roles of individual factors involved in error generation.
