In the past two years, medication errors have been recognized as having been unacceptably high among hospitalized patients.To determine the incidence and type of medication errors, severity of events, patient outcomes and categories of drugs involved in the largest pediatric hospital in Thailand over a fifteen-month-period.Retrospective review of in-patient medication errors documented in standard reporting forms from September 2001 to November 2002. Main outcome measure was the incidence of errors reported.Medication errors occurred in 1 per cent of admissions (322 errors of 32,105 admissions). The most common error type was prescription error (35.40

作者：Varaporn, Sangtawesin；Wiboon, Kanjanapattanakul；Panida, Srisan；Wipajaree, Nawasiri；Pornsri, Ingchareonsunthorn

来源：Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand = Chotmaihet thangphaet 2003 年 86 Suppl 3卷