Keywords :
Medication Errors, Medical Negligence, Risk in Hospitals.

ABSTRACT
The case study emphasises on Medication errors in a hospital and this paper discusses the medication errors which occurred at a multi-speciality hospital, Patan, Gujarat. This is a record based retrospective study of sample of 500 inpatient records, focussing on adverse drug events (ADE). A total of 36 ADEs were recorded giving an ADER of 7.2%. A root cause analysis was done and steps for reducing/avoiding medication errors were suggested, based on findings.