How Many Hospital Pharmacy Medication Dispensing Errors Go Undetected? Medication Safety

Hospital pharmacies in the United States eachdispense hundreds of thousands to millions of medica-tion doses annually, and therefore even low dispensingerror rates can generate many errors. Previous researchalso indicates that nurses only intercept 33% of seriousmedication dispensing errors before medication admin-istration, so many of these errors could reach patients.