AHRQ-Funded Patient Safety Project Highlights: Improving Patient Safety by Enhancing Medication Safety.

Medication safety refers to practices and measures implemented to reduce the potential for medication errors and adverse drug events in various healthcare settings. This summary describes 123 AHRQ-supported projects associated with medication safety efforts. The most common strategies tested in this work focused on information technology, error reporting and analysis, and quality improvement. This summary is part of a series describing AHRQ-funded patient safety research; other summaries focus on care coordination and patient and family engagement.