Article: New life sciences data have been reported by scientists at University of Manchester.

Fresh data on life sciences are presented in the report 'Prevalence, incidence and nature of prescribing errors in hospital inpatients: a systematic review.' According to recent research from Manchester, the United Kingdom, "Prescribing errors affect patient safety throughout hospital practice. Previous reviews of studies have often targeted specific populations or settings, or did not adopt a systematic approach to reviewing the literature."

"Therefore, we set out to systematically review the prevalence, incidence and nature of prescribing errors in hospital inpatients. MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (all from 1985 to October ...

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