According to WHO statistics, 11% of all EU citizens claim to have been prescribed the wrong medicine. Medication errors cause more than one million serious injuries or deaths in the United States every year.
Medication errors are generally preventable and are a type of medical malpractice. A medication error can occur at any point in the prescribing process from the time the medication is administered to the time the medication is taken. Most of the time, the error is made by a nurse or doctor, but sometimes a pharmacist makes a mistake in filling the prescription.
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