**Author details**

If an error or an adverse drug event is realized, most patients anticipate disclosure that is at a suitable time, given in person, and accompanied with an apology and attempt to prevent future adverse drug events and errors. Learning more about medication errors may improve healthcare professionals' capacity to make available cautious healthcare to their patients. Future research should concentrate on recognizing the errors and adverse drug events that most usually cause patient injury. Furthermore, a better knowledge in what manner of information technology, labeling, medication reconciliation, and improved care transitions decrease medication errors and adverse drug events is needed. A concentration of easy-to-use and cheap techniques for medication error lowering will probably have the

The author did not get any dedicated funding for the specific manuscript.

NCC MERP National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention

The author affirms that she has no competing interests.

greatest influence.

**Acknowledgements**

88 Vignettes in Patient Safety - Volume 4

**Competing interests**

ADEs adverse drug events

AHA American Hospital Association

EDMET El Dorado medication error tool

NPSA National Patient Safety Agency

EMRs electronic medical records

AEs adverse events

CCU coronary care unit

ICUs intensive care units

UK United Kingdom

US United States

MSEs medication side effects

**Abbreviations**

Vasiliki Kapaki

Address all correspondence to: vkapaki2005@gmail.com

Health Policy Institute, Athens, Greece
