Article: Medication errors in perspective. (Horizons).(Brief Article)

Article: Computerized ordering cuts medication ...
Adverse Event Reporting News;  July 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... ordering systems had a 66% drop in medication errors, say the authors of a review that ... S. hospital patients experience medication errors, such as receiving an incorrect ... no medication at all. Each year, medication errors injure or Illegible handwriting on ...

Article: Medication errors injure 1.5 billion.(NATION IN ...
The Nation's Health;  September 1, 2006 ;     616 words ...Medication errors are one of the most common medical ... s recommendations for reducing medication errors was establishing and maintaining ... drug names to 25 percent of all medication errors and labeling and packaging issues ...

Article: California tackles medication errors.(Continuing ...
Chain Drug Review;  March 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... one of the keys to reducing medication errors, which are estimated to ... contributing factor for many medication errors involving prescriptions as ... significant role in reducing medication errors and saving lives."

Article: Pharmacists in Texas Target Medication ...
Chain Drug Review;  February 26, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... address the growing concern over medication errors in community practice settings and ... reduction systems, the public and medication errors and performance standards were reviewed ... that the initial step in preventing medication errors is to acknowledge that they originate ...

Article: A dose of safety; Senate bill would help facilities buy ...
Modern Healthcare;  May 7, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Dose electronic newsletter. The Medication Errors Reduction Act of 2001, sponsored ... infrastructure. A 1999 IOM report said medication errors account for more than 7,000 deaths ... reduce medical errors. Unlike the Medication Errors Reduction Act, however, the Schumer ...

Article: Preventing medication errors.(Brief ...
SciTech Book News;  March 1, 2007 ;     434 words ...9780309101479 Preventing medication errors. Ed. by Philip Aspden et al. National Academies Press ... Institute of Medicine, this report considers the problem of medication errors and suggests how the incidence of these mistakes--costly ...

Article: 1.5 million.(report on medication errors ...
Cortlandt Forum;  September 1, 2006 ;     375 words ...1.5 million Number of people in the United States harmed by medication errors each year. This from a recent report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which found the mistakes cost $3.5 billion annually ...