Important: VAERS reports alone cannot determine if a vaccine caused an adverse event. Reports may contain incomplete, inaccurate, or unverified information. Correlation does not equal causation.
Medication error appears in 5,147 VAERS reports across all vaccines. Of these, 8 reports also mentioned death and 80 involved hospitalization. The severity rate (deaths + hospitalizations as a percentage of reports) is 1.7%. The top vaccines associated with this symptom are FLU3, HIBV, IPV. Remember: VAERS reports show temporal association, not causation.
Medication error has been reported 5,147 times in VAERS from 1990 to 2026.
Of these reports, 8 were associated with death (0.16%) and 80 involved hospitalization.
The overall serious outcome rate (death or hospitalization) for reports mentioning Medication error is 1.7%.
This data comes from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), jointly managed by CDC and FDA.