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Article: Medication errors in the OR--a secondary analysis of Medmarx.(operating room )
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- AORN Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Editor's note: This article focuses on medication errors in the OR. An article about medication errors that occur in the day surgery setting will appear in the February 2003 issue of SSM, Both articles are based on information derived from the US Pharmacopeia's Medmarx database.
Medication errors have resulted in patient deaths and a multitude of serious complications. Errors related to the medication use process (ie, prescribing, documenting, dispensing, administering, monitoring) are perhaps the most frequent errors that occur in health care settings. Since the release of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, a ...