The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) 1999 report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, stated that medication-related errors were a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, accounting “for one out of every 131 outpatient deaths, and one out of 854 inpatient deaths.” Building on this work and previous IOM reports, the IOM put forth a report in 2006 entitled Preventing Medicati...