Methods: All medication-prescribing errors with potential for adverse patient outcome detected and averted by staff pharmacists from January 1, 1987, through December 31, 1995, were systematically recorded and analyzed. Errors were evaluated by type of error, medication class involved, prescribing servic...
consistent in academic ability; unstable. For each of the trends, we explore two broad questions: 1. What are the reasons for and sources of the trend? 2. What are the implications and consequences of the trend? Keywords: teachers;teaching force;demographic characteristics...