Medication review and medicines use review

A toolkit for pharmacists. Emerging data show that medication errors and adverse events cause significant harm to patients’ health and well-being. It is estimated that the burden of adverse events due to medicines is now comparable to that of widespread diseases, such as malaria or tuberculosis.1 The impacts of medication errors also represent a burden for health systems, with the annual cost associated with medication errors estimated at USD 42 billion worldwideharm