RT Journal
A1 Kuehn BM
T1 FDa initiative aims to reduce medication-related errors
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2009
FD December 2
VO 302
IS 21
SP 2304
OP 2304
DO 10.1001/jama.2009.1759
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.1759
AB 
Each year, drug-related adverse events result in 4 million visits to emergency departments or other health care facilities, with cost of such visits exceeding $4 billion, according to the FDA. These injuries may occur as a result of a clinician not applying current knowledge of the drug when prescribing or because of a mix-up or other procedural error. They can also occur when a patient fails to use a product correctly—for instance, by taking more than the recommended dose or by purposely abusing the product. There are also many cases in which children are inadvertently exposed to medications that had not been stored properly.