Mortality from medication errors

While the pharmaceutical care movement made an indelible mark on the profession, its terminology is being replaced with more contemporary language that reflects pharmacists growing roles in the provision of public health services. In recognizing the morbidity and mortality resulting from medication errors as a public health problem, the profession has begun to... 

Medication errors are costly and are a diversion from the intended therapeutic objective. Morbidity or mortality are possible outcomes of medication errors. A 1997 study by Bates et al. (9) found that 6.5 ADEs occur for every 100 nonobstetric hospital admissions/ and that 28% of them were preventable. It also was determined that 42% of life-threatening and... 

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