IOM: 1.5 million injured by medication errors annually
Ambulatory Safety Monitor, July 28, 2006
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Medication errors, or adverse drug events (ADEs), harm 1.5 million people annually, and the additional cost of treating ADE-related injuries is more than $3.5 billion each year, according to a study conducted by the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
Improving the patient-provider relationship is crucial to reducing medication errors, the report says. It also lists the following recommendations for eliminating preventable medication errors:
- Healthcare organizations should inform patients about medication errors made in their care
- The National Library of Medicine should create a Web site to serve as a centralized source of comprehensive, objective, and easy-to-understand information about drugs for consumers
- All providers should use e-prescribing systems by 2010
- Standize drug naming terms and require all companies to use the standardized terms
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