| Article ID: | iaor20091208 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 55 |
| End Page Number: | 65 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2008 |
| Journal: | Health Care Management Science |
| Authors: | Mazur Lukasz M., Chen Shi-Jie (Gary) |
The enormous gaps in the knowledge required to understand medication errors and their related costs (or wastes) in all hospital settings have become a growing national concern. Such gaps are often the major reasons causing risk for patient safety and creating waste to the hospital. However, medication delivery system cannot be successfully improved and implemented without a clear understanding of various process flows running around the entire hospital system.