“Between January and December 1990, the number of medication error reports received per month ranged from 73 to 141. In that year the number of errors reported increased per month”. Read ‘Severity-indexed, incident report-based medication error-reporting program’ to learn how one hospital used a relational database in identifying problem areas and trends so that quality assurance could implement corrective measures to reduce medication errors and improve drug use.: http://ow.ly/RWpF30im4K0