Overview Prevention of medical error Overview Lesson Content 0% Complete 0/3 Steps Errors may occur in prescribing, dispensing, preparing solutions, administering, or monitoring. Medication errors are very common. Several thousand medication orders are dispensed and administered each day in a medium-sized hospital About 7,000 people per year are estimated to die from medication errors, while 50% of such errors are preventable. Previous Lesson Back to Course Next Lesson
