Abstract

The quality of health care provided in the United States has come under increased scrutiny over the past several years. Specifically, patient safety has become a national initiative driven not only by patients but also by governmental agencies. It has been well documented that medication errors in particular are potentially avoidable and harmful [1]. The Institute of Medicine reports, To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century [2,3], suggest that reporting systems of errors should be used for potentially preventing these errors.

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