Best of 2021: (OVER)DOSE - How Can We Prevent Medication Errors and Patient Harm?
This is a short documentary about medication-related patient safety. The documentary explores and offers an overview of the current challenges and technical solutions related to medication safety to raise awareness about the need to further improve medication-related patient safety.
Unsafe medication practices and medication errors are a leading cause of injury and avoidable harm in health care systems across the world. Globally, the cost associated with medication errors has been estimated at $42 billion USD annually. Errors can occur at different stages of the medication use process.
More than 237 million medication errors are made every year in England, the avoidable consequences of which cost the NHS upwards of £98 million and more than 1700 lives every year, indicate national estimates, published online in the journal BMJ Quality & Safety.
The documentary premiered on 29 June 2021.
Watch the documentary and full interviews with the speakers: https://www.facesofdigitalhealth.com/overdose-documentary
Learn more about Better Meds: https://meds.better.care/
Speakers in the movie and this episode:
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