Medication Errors

These results relied on data voluntary provided to American Hospital Association. It is likely that substantial number of medication errors go undetected or unreported to the hospital medication error reporting system. So, it seems more likely that substantially more patients are harmed each year by medication errors than these figures suggest. As the total medication errors and medication errors that adversely affect patient care outcomes increase, hospital mortality rate, drug cost/occupied bed, length of stay and total cost/occupied bed increase.