Market distribution of medication error reporting globally 2018, by error type

The global medication error reporting market was worth some 326 million U.S. dollars in 2018. Of this, one third was due to knowledge based errors. According to some sources, between 44,000 and 98,000 people die annually due to medication errors in the U.S., making it the eighth leading cause of deaths in the country.

全球药物错误报告市场在2018年的价值约为3.26亿美元。其中，三分之一源于基于知识的错误。据某些资料显示，每年约有4.4万至9.8万人因药物错误在美国丧生，这使得药物错误成为该国第八大死亡原因。