Medication errors are estimated to be responsible for more than 7000 deaths annually in the USA. 1 These numbers are based on the reported medication errors in which hundreds are often not reported. 2 Healthcare professionals are expected to understand that medication safety is everyone's responsibility, and the accountability in preventing medication errors relies on a team approach including physicians, pharmacists and nurses. 3 Accordingly, in 2017 the World Health Organization has published the Third Global Patient Safety Challenge (Medication without harm) which intends to reduce medication-related harm within the following 5 years. 4Altough the medication errors are medication administration errors (MAEs). MAE is commonly defined as "a deviation from the
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