Do you know that 25% of all drug-related injuries are preventable? It is estimated that more than 4 billion prescriptions are written each year and there are more than 50 million errors related to these drugs. Medication-related errors can occur anywhere in the prescribing process. Such errors include anything from a prescription with an unreadable handwriting, inaccurate transcriptions made at the pharmacy, to an inappropriate administration of the medication due to incorrect instructions given by medical assistants, nurses and other health professionals. How can these mistakes be avoided?