Medication-related errors are common, can cause high-severity injury, and can be costly. Many organizations have made reducing these errors top priority, including the World Health Organization (WHO) which launched a global effort to halve medication-related errors in five years. Our national Candello report, Medication-related Malpractice Risks, examines the impact—financial and human—and root causes of medication-related errors.
Medication-related errors are common, can cause high-severity injury, and can be costly. Many organizations have made reducing these errors top priority, including the World Health Organization (WHO) which launched a global effort to halve medication-related errors in five years. Our national Candello Report, Medication-related Malpractice Risks, examines the impact—financial and human—and root causes of medication-related errors.
Among this study of medical professional liability cases in Candello asserted 2010–2014:
There has been a greater willingness to see improving the medication process as a multidisciplinary effort. Errors are not a 'prescriber' problem, nor a 'pharmacy' problem, nor a 'nursing' problem: everybody owns the problem because there are opportunities for errors and harm in medication management.”
—Frank Federico, RPH, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
