What national standards are available for benchmarking medication errors? What is the national medication error rate?
It is currently not possible to set a benchmark. Each hospital or organization is different. The rates are really only a measure of the number of reports at a given institution not the quality of the care given. It is very possible that an institution with a good reporting system, and thus what appears to be a high error rate, may have a safer system. For more detailed information see the following articles.
