Corrigendum to: Use of electronic medical records to monitor the safe and effective prescribing of medicinal cannabis: is it feasible?

Abstract

BACKGROUND: General practitioners are well positioned to contribute to the pharmacovigilance of medical cannabis via the general practice electronic medical record (EMR). The aim of this research is to interrogate de-identified patient data from the Patron primary care data repository for reports of medicinal cannabis to ascertain the feasibility of using EMRs to monitor medicinal cannabis prescribing in Australia. METHODS: EMR rule-based digital phenotyping of 1 164 846 active patients from 109 practices was undertaken to investigate reports of medicinal cannabis use from September 2017 to September 2020. RESULTS: Eighty patients with 170 prescriptions of medicinal cannabis were identified ..