Erratum to: Clinical pharmacist evaluation of medication inappropriateness in the emergency department of a teaching hospital in Malta

West, Lorna M.; Cordina, Maria; Cunningham, Scott; West, Lorna M.; Cordina, Maria; Cunningham, Scott

doi:10.18549/pharmpract.2017.03.1092

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Pharmacy Practice (Granada)

On-line version ISSN 1886-3655Print version ISSN 1885-642X

Pharmacy Pract (Granada) vol.15 n.3 Redondela Jul./Sep. 2017

https://dx.doi.org/10.18549/pharmpract.2017.03.1092

This corrects the article: 10.4321/s1886-36552012000400001

Correction of errors

Erratum to: Clinical pharmacist evaluation of medication inappropriateness in the emergency department of a teaching hospital in Malta

Lorna M. West¹, Maria Cordina², Scott Cunningham³

¹Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta. Msida (Malta). lorna.west@um.edu.mt

²Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Malta. Msida (Malta). maria.cordina@um.edu.mt

³Academic Strategic Lead (Clinical Practice), Robert Gordon University. Aberdeen (United Kingdom). s.cunningham@rgu.ac.uk

ERRATUM TO:

West LM, Cordina M, Cunningham S. Clinical pharmacist evaluation of medication inappropriateness in the emergency department of a teaching hospital in Malta. Pharmacy Practice 2012; 10(4):181-187. doi: 10.4321/s1886-36552012000400001

The following scoring details of the ‘Medication Appropriateness Index’ (MAI) originated by Hanlon, Schmader and their colleagues¹,²,³,⁴,⁵,⁶ were unintentionally inverted erroneously in our article⁷:

“Are the directions practical?” was reported as a weight of 2 when it should have been 1, and
“Are there clinically significant drug-disease/condition interactions?” was reported as a weight of 1 when it should have been 2.

This error was reported 3 times in the ‘Methods’ section, two of which are in Table 1.

Whilst this was erroneously reported, the scoring was applied correctly and the study was conducted in accordance with the original publications by MAI originators.¹,²,³ Therefore, this error does not impact, in any way, the reported results or outcome of the paper.⁷

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2 Samsa GP, Hanlon JT, Schmader KE, Weinberger M, Clipp EC, Uttech KM, Lewis IK, Landsman PB, Cohen HJ. A summated score for the medication appropriateness index: development and assessment of clinimetric properties including content validity. J Clin Epidemiol. 1994;47(8):891-896. [ Links ]

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6 Schmader KE, Hanlon JT, Pieper CF, Sloane R, Ruby CM, Twersky J, Francis SD, Branch LG, Lindblad CI, Artz M, Weinberger M, Feussner JR, Cohen HJ. Effects of geriatric evaluation and management on adverse drug reactions and suboptimal prescribing in the frail elderly. Am J Med. 2004;116(6):394-401. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2003.10.031 [ Links ]

7 West LM, Cordina M, Cunningham S. Clinical pharmacist evaluation of medication inappropriateness in the emergency department of a teaching hospital in Malta. Pharmacy Practice 2012; 10(4):181-187. doi: 10.4321/s1886-36552012000400001 [ Links ]

Received: August 16, 2017; Accepted: August 19, 2017

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