Over a 10-week reporting period, data was collected from 507 medication event reports involving patients aged two months to 96 years. Seventy percent of the reports described medication errors only, 27 percent described adverse events only and 2.4 percent described a combination of medication errors and adverse events.
The most frequent contributors to the adverse drug events and medication errors were communication problems, with 30 percent and 11 percent of communications errors relayed in written and verbal form, respectively. Lack of knowledge contributed to approximately 22 percent of adverse drug events and medication errors.
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