Health systems and health professionals help the patients to stay healthy. The goal of drug therapy is the achievement of defined therapeutic outcomes that improve a patient’s quality of life. Medication administration errors documented in the literature from last thirty years. Errors resulting in patient injury and death are occurring in hospitals at significantly high. In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published a report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, mission public attention to the important issue of patient safety. According to these, 44,000-98,000 Americans may die annually because of medical mistakes made by health care professionals and associated with a cost of $17 to $29 billion (ranks eighth-leading cause of death in the United States). The safety net should work with all professionals and in all environments and may consist of multiple checks by individuals of other people's work, computer systems that screen for errors, barcode scanning systems, quality assurance measures and extra-organizational measures (e.g., to minimize ordering medications from companies with similar packaging).
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