• Prescribing errors
- Polypharmacy (caregivers sometimes complicit)
- Potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs)
- Potential prescribing omissions (PPOs)
- Failure to recognise need for palliative pharmacotherapy
• Reconciliation errors
• Compliance errors
- Packaging, presentation, formulation
- Failure to detect cognitive problems
• Economic errors
- Failure to prescribe generics
- Focus of ‘new, improved’ drugs