Optimalisation of pharmacotherapy and patient safety by development of advanced clinical decision support systems in hospital and first line setting KU Leuven
In 1999, the US Institute of Medicine released a report titled “To Err is Human: building a Safer Health System”, which addressed the potential impact of medical errors on health care and patient morbidity and mortality. According to this report, in 1993 alone, about 7000 deaths in the US could be directly attributed to medication errors. As a result of these unsettling findings, during the last two decades, much effort has been put into ...