About the Authors

Zamzam Ahmed

Affiliations The Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, United Kingdom, Pharmacy Department, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Monsey Chan McLeod

Affiliations The Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, United Kingdom, Pharmacy Department, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Nick Barber

Affiliation The Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, United Kingdom

Ann Jacklin

Affiliation The Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, United Kingdom

Bryony Dean Franklin

Bryony.deanfranklin@imperial.nhs.uk

Affiliations The Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, United Kingdom, Pharmacy Department, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

AJ has been paid by IBSL for consultancy work relating to electronic prescribing, and BDF has been paid travel expenses by the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists to speak at a meeting sponsored by EP system suppliers; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZA MCM NB AJ BDF. Performed the experiments: ZA MCM. Analyzed the data: ZA BDF NB MCM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZA MCM NB AJ BDF. Wrote the paper: ZA BDF NB AJ MCM.