Health-care services around the world continue to struggle with safe and effective delivery of medication. Globally, it has been estimated that the cost associated with medication errors is US$42 billion each year.1 Patients in low-income countries lose twice as many disability-adjusted life-years due to medication-related harm than those in high-income countries.1 In England, there are an estimated 237 million medication errors annually, about half of which were administration errors with minimal or no potential for clinical harm.
Original Article: [Comment] Improving medication safety: focus on prescribers and systems