Medical care depends on the interrelated activities of many people, who together form a
complex system. 6 Human errors in this context are a property of the system as well as of the …

Background: Medication errors are a common cause of morbidity and mortality. Objectives:
To evaluate the rate of acknowledgment of medication errors as reported by physicians …

The pharmacist called this morning with a query about a prescription. He thought a decimal
point was in the wrong place, and he was right. How often have similar mistakes gone …

Patient safety is an increasingly well-recognized pub-lic health problem. The Institute of
Medicine's report entitled To Err Is Human1 initially drew widespread attention to this issue …

Evidence that medication errors occur com-monly in all patient care settings continues to
mount. Kozer et al1 demonstrate in this issue of Pediatrics that the pediatric emergency …

Background The Institute of Medicine's reportTo Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health
Systemrecommends pharmacist participation in patient rounds as an immediate approach to …

In 1999, an expert panel of the Institute of Medicine estimated that 44,000 to 98,000 people
in the United States die each year as a result of medical errors [1]. One of the more common …

Although the root causes of medication errors reside in systems, each individual health care
professional—beginning with the prescriber—must take every possible precaution to …

Background Prescribing errors have the potential to adversely affect the safe
pharmacological treatment of patients of all ages. The multi-centre General Medical Council …

Education in the health professions concentrates mainly on adult patients. Only a small
portion of practitioners' training is devoted to the care of pediatric patients, often during …