The role of the community pharmacist in detecting and decreasing medication errors: a scoping review ; El papel del farmacéutico comunitario en la detección y disminución de los errores de medicación: revisión sistemática exploratoria

Introduction: Medication errors, mostly preventable, are among the top 10 causes of death worldwide. Community pharmacists provide professional pharmacy services (PPS) to ensure safer, more effective and efficient use of medications, being professionals who should be included in strategies to reduce medication errors at the primary care level. This work aims to offer an evidence framework on the initiatives carried out by community pharmacists, in Spain, to identify, reduce or eliminate medication errors at different points in the therapeutic chain and propose a classification of the critical points of the therapeutic chain to classify PPS.Method: Scoping review of international and national databases to obtain published studies where the community pharmacists provide an intervention to detect, reduce or eliminate of medication errorsResults: 39 records have been compiled and have been classified in 7 critical points of the therapeutic chain: (i) 7 in dispensation, (ii) 4 in validation/review of the treatment, (iii) 3 in healthcare transition, (iv) 18 in treatment monitoring, (v) 4 in education to patients and (vi) 3 in minor ailments service.Conclusions: The PPS carried out at the state level demonstrate that they serve to identify and resolve medication errors and a new classification of the critical points of the therapeutic chain that exist in the community pharmacy is proposed, and it relates to the PPS that are involved in each point. ; Introducción: Los errores de medicación se encuentran entre las 10 principales causas de muerte en el mundo y en su mayoría son prevenibles. Los servicios profesionales farmacéuticos asistenciales (SPFA) tratan de garantizar un uso más seguro, efectivo y eficiente de los medicamentos, y por ello los farmacéuticos comunitarios pueden contribuir a reducir errores de la medicación a nivel de atención primaria. Este trabajo pretender ofrecer un marco de evidencia sobre las iniciativas llevadas a cabo por farmacéuticos comunitarios, a nivel estatal, para identificar, reducir o ...