Prevention of Error in Using Material

Medication errors have important implications for patient safety, and their identification is a main target in improving clinical practice errors, in order to prevent adverse events. … Reporting discloses medication errors, can trigger warnings, and encourages the diffusion of a culture of safe practice.All the factors that lead to medication errors in general contribute towards prescription errors. They include lack of knowledge, using the wrong drug name, dosage form, or abbreviation, and incorrect dosage calculations. … In one study the most common form of prescription error was writing the wrong dose.