Preventable deaths involving medicines: a systematic case series of coroners’ reports 2013–22

Summary

Medicines cause over 1700 preventable deaths annually in England. Coroners’ Prevention of Future Death reports (PFDs) are produced in response to preventable deaths to facilitate change. The information in PFDs may help reduce medicine-related preventable deaths.

Authors of this paper, published in Drug Safety, aimed to identify medicine-related deaths in coroners’ reports and to explore concerns to prevent future deaths.