Medication Administration Failure

As mentioned above, different strategies have been implemented to prevent the unfavorable effects of medical errors, particularly mistakes in medication administration. Because of medication errors, the patients’ mortality went up, which costs the U.S. healthcare systems billions of dollars yearly. It was also reported that every year, there are approximately 450 000 unfavorable medication circumstances of which 25 percent could have been prevented, that caused an injury to the patient. Therefore, other than the CDSS/CPOE implementation, the following systems were being used to aid in the improvement of the medication administration efficiency: intravenous infusion pumps with preprogrammed drug information, barcode-assisted medication administration