Medication Errors in United States Hospitals

This study evaluated hospital demographics, staffing, pharmacy variables, health care outcomes measures (severity of illness‐adjusted mortality rates, drug costs, total cost of care, and length of stay) and medication errors. A database was constructed from the 1992 American Hospital Association's Abridged Guide to the Health Care Field, the 1992 National Clinical Pharmacy Services database, and 1992 mortality data from the Health Care Financing...