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• History of Medication Safety

  • Medication errors are expensive

  – USA: $17 billion – $37 billion is lost to annually due to lose of income, disability and healthcare expenses
• History of Medication Safety

  • At least 400,000 adverse drug events in hospitals are preventable
• History of Medication Safety

  • Medication errors (ME) are not fully appreciated

  – Causes more deaths in a year than

  Breast cancer

  Motor vehicle accident

  HIV/AIDS
• Medication Safety

  • Totality of medication use to the patient

  • Priority of health system pharmacy practice

  • Over 7000 preventable deaths occur each year due to medication errors