Medication errors are apparently significantly underreported by anesthesia providers, at least at certain institutions. These recent findings may reflect a culture of underreporting or fear of punitive action, despite the fact that approximately 10% of these reported medication errors caused at least temporary patient harm.

Using self-reported institutional quality assurance data and data from the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group—a consortium of international medical centers aggregating electronic health record and quality improvement data for performance improvement and outcomes research—a multicenter team of researchers gathered data from July 2006 through November 2015 for potential instances of medication error.

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