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A medication error refers to an error (of commission or omission) at any step along the pathway that begins when a clinician prescribes a medication and ends when the patient actually receives the medication.
The term dispensing error refers to medication errors linked to the pharmacy or to whatever. health care professional dispenses the medication. These include errors of commission (e.g. dispensing the wrong drug, wrong dose or an incorrect entry into the computer system) and those. of omission (e.g. failure to counsel the patient, screen for interactions or ambiguous language on. a label).