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Council Promotes Medication Error Index September 4, 1996 — The National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention has taken a first step toward establishing standard categories for medication errors. At its July meeting, the Council developed the Medication Error Index for Categorizing Errors. This new indexing system will help health care professionals throughout the nation track medication errors in a consistent, systematic manner. The index considers such factors as whether the error reached the patient, and if the patient was harmed, to what degree. The Council will promote use of the Medication Error Index in health care delivery settings such as hospitals, long-term care facilities, and retail pharmacies, and encourages use of the index by researchers and by vendors of medication error tracking software. Medication Error Index   © 1998–2008 National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention. All Rights Reserved. *Permission is hereby granted to reproduce information contained herein provided that such reproduction shall not modify the text and shall include the copyright notice appearing on the pages from which it was copied.