White Papers
The Urgent Need to Reduce Medication Errors in Hospitals to Prevent Patient and Second Victim Harm
Medication errors are the most common adverse event in hospitals, not only in terms of number, but as well in morbidity and mortality and have significant economic and health consequences. Adverse events related to an erroneous use of medication cause greater mortality than traffic accidents, breast cancer or the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In addition, healthcare staff directly or indirectly involved in an adverse event, the ‘second victims’, may also suffer from emotional harm.
Digital Medication Management in Healthcare Settings
An opportunity for the European Union.
Call for action by the Alliance for the Digitalisation of Medication Management in European hospitals to support the digitalisation of hospitals’ medication management pathways.
