The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare combined with 10 healthcare systems and hospitals to reduce the amount errors that occur. They found that approximately 80 percent of
How does communication affect medication errors?
Poor communication between clinicians and patients can result in misunderstandings about medications and the miscommunication of follow up instructions, which can result in poor outcomes and readmissions, and could result in a patient coming to harm.
What could contribute to a medication error?
The most common causes of medication errors are: Poor communication between your doctors. Poor communication between you and your doctors. Drug names that sound alike and medications that look alike.
