Medication Errors

"Medication Errors" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Errors in prescribing, dispensing, or administering medication with the result that the patient fails to receive the correct drug or the indicated proper drug dosage.

Descriptor ID	D008508
MeSH Number(s)	E02.319.529 N02.421.450.500
Concept/Terms	Medication Errors Medication Errors Errors, Medication Error, Medication Medication Error Drug Use Error Drug Use Error Drug Use Errors Error, Drug Use Errors, Drug Use Use Error, Drug Use Errors, Drug

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Medication Errors".

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Therapeutics [E02]
Drug Therapy [E02.319]
Medication Errors [E02.319.529]
Health Care [N]
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services [N02]
Health Services [N02.421]
Medical Errors [N02.421.450]
Medication Errors [N02.421.450.500]

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Bar chart showing 70 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2005 and 2008

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1999	1	0	1
2003	0	1	1
2004	1	0	1
2005	5	3	8
2006	5	2	7
2007	4	2	6
2008	6	2	8
2009	4	0	4
2010	4	1	5
2011	4	0	4
2012	2	2	4
2013	3	0	3
2014	1	2	3
2015	1	1	2
2017	2	1	3
2018	0	1	1
2019	2	1	3
2020	0	1	1
2021	1	1	2
2023	0	1	1
2024	0	1	1
2026	0	1	1

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Foster CC, Walsh P, High M, Barrera L, Coleman CL, Storey MM, Montgomery N, Harris DS, Valdez D, Haywood C, Lagu T, Walsh KE, Khan A, Werner NE. Patient Safety Events Among Children Receiving Home Health Care. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 May 01; 9(5):e2610321.

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Miotto MB, Balchan B, Combe L. Safe Administration of Medication in School: Policy Statement. Pediatrics. 2024 Jun 01; 153(6).

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Kapoor A, Patel P, Mbusa D, Pham T, Cicirale C, Tran W, Beavers C, Javed S, Wagner J, Swain D, Crawford S, Darling C, ItoFuKunaga M, McManus D, Mazor K, Gurwitz J. Multicomponent Pharmacist Intervention Did Not Reduce Clinically Important Medication Errors for Ambulatory Patients Initiating Direct Oral Anticoagulants. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 12; 38(16):3526-3534.

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Kandaswamy S, Grimes J, Hoffman D, Marquard J, Ratwani RM, Hettinger AZ. Free-Text Computerized Provider Order Entry Orders Used as Workaround for Communicating Medication Information. J Patient Saf. 2022 08 01; 18(5):430-434.

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Gurwitz JH, Kapoor A, Garber L, Mazor KM, Wagner J, Cutrona SL, Singh S, Kanaan AO, Donovan JL, Crawford S, Anzuoni K, Konola TJ, Zhou Y, Field TS. Effect of a Multifaceted Clinical Pharmacist Intervention on Medication Safety After Hospitalization in Persons Prescribed High-risk Medications: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2021 05 01; 181(5):610-618.

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Chin DL, Wilson MH, Trask AS, Johnson VT, Neaves BI, Gojova A, Hogarth MA, Bang H, Romano PS. Repurposing Clinical Decision Support System Data to Measure Dosing Errors and Clinician-Level Quality of Care. J Med Syst. 2020 Sep 08; 44(10):185.

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Philips K, Zhou R, Lee DS, Marrese C, Nazif J, Browne C, Sinnett M, Tuckman S, Griffith K, Kiely V, Lutz M, Modi A, Rinke ML. Caregiver Medication Management and Understanding After Pediatric Hospital Discharge. Hosp Pediatr. 2019 11; 9(11):844-850.

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Shenoy AM, Bennett A, Segal AZ. Tips and Resources for Medication Reconciliation. Continuum (Minneap Minn). 2019 Apr; 25(2):543-549.

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Kadoyama KL, Noble BN, Izumi S, Fromme EK, Tjia J, McPherson ML, Candrian CB, McGregor JC, Ku IY, Furuno JP. Frequency and Documentation of Medication Decisions on Discharge from the Hospital to Hospice Care. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019 06; 67(6):1258-1262.

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Beauchamp GA, Carey JL, Adams T, Wier A, Col?n MF, Cook M, Cannon R, Katz KD, Greenberg MR. Sex Differences in Poisonings Among Older Adults: An Analysis of the Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC) Registry, 2010 to 2016. Clin Ther. 2018 08; 40(8):1366-1374.e8.

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