Developing Medication Safety Training Applications with Software Patients for Human Teams

The cost and consequences of medication errors are a huge concern for healthcare systems around the world, and are often attributed to breakdowns in processes involved in medication prescription, delivery, and administration. Medication administration errors are associated with violations of one (or more) of the six rights of medication administration: right drug, dose, patient, route, time, and documentation. Medication administration errors are the second most frequent type of error and may account for up to a third or more of all preventable events (Bates et al., 1995).