Abstract
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System has focused national attention on quality of care and the prevalence of medical errors in the healthcare system. According to the report, medical errors are responsible for a large number of deaths and additional morbidity in healthcare facilities and increased cost to the healthcare system.1 A large proportion of medical errors are medication-related.2 Medication-related errors and other adverse drug reactions are known collectively as adverse drug events (ADEs), defined as “any injury resulting from the medical use of a drug.”3,4 ADEs occur across the entire healthcare delivery system and are most common in older people, particularly those in hospitals and nursing homes.
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