Assignment Task:
Medication Safety is Important Adverse drug events are harms resulting from the use of medication and include allergic reactions, side effects, overmedication, and medication errors. Adverse drug events are a serious public health problem. It is estimated that: 82 percent of American adults take at least one medication and 29 percent take five or more;1 ADEs cause approximately 1.3 million emergency department visits and 350,000 hospitalizations each year;2 $3.5 billion is spent on excess medical costs of ADEs annually;3 More than 40% of costs related to ambulatory (non-hospital) ADEs might be preventable. Describe the patient safety issues and legal consequences associated with medication errors and adverse drug events. What causes these errors and what is being done about it? Need Online Tutoring?