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Some facts and figures concerning drug errors worldwide:

 Worldwide: 17% of medication errors involve errors in calculations.

 Almost 50% of all intravenous injections feature a mistake, and the number of patients requiring intravenous therapy is increasing. In medicines management, not only do we have to contend with long, hard to pronounce drug names, but we need to get our heads around all the abbreviations, including Latin ones!