Research conducted by Gleason, Feinglass, & Lindquist (2010) set out to address the factors and effects associated with medication error during patient handoffs. The study included 651 adult inpatients with over 5,701 prescription medications. The investigators categorized the errors into both medication class and type of error. The researchers noted that as the number of medication errors increased, the percentage of affected patients decreased. Classification of medication errors were separated to omission, different dose, and different frequency. Omission was the highest percentage at 48.9%, different dose at 30.4%, and frequency at 11%. Additionally, only 1.3% medication orders were considered to possibly cause patients to stay in a hospital
