Article: Hand-Offs and Lack of Coordination During the Surgical Experience Contribute to High Rate of Harmful Medication Errors

Article: FDA partnership to cut medication ...
Pharma Marketletter;  June 26, 2006 ;     622 words ... ... a Pennsylvania-based non-profit organization, to reduce the almost 7,000 deaths annually in the USA, caused by medication errors. Andrew von Eschenbach, Acting Commissioner of the FDA said: "some abbreviations, symbols and dose designations are ...

Article: Study finds relatively few medication errors result ...
Healthcare Strategic Management;  February 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Relatively few medication errors in 2001 resulted ... certain types of medication errors are more likely to ... Rockville, Md.-based United States Pharmacopeia's ... drugs. In addition, medication errors frequently involved ...

Article: Hand-Offs and Lack of Coordination Contribute to Perioperative ...
AANA Journal;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... pediatric medication errors resulting ... released by the United States Pharmacopeia ... reports of medication errors from more ... across the United States It is the ... database of medication errors in the United States. Source ...

Article: Medication errors in perspective. (Horizons).(Brief ...
Journal of Neuroscience Nursing;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Factors associated with medication errors included lack of pharmacy ... effective way to reduce medication errors is to decentralize the ... Franke, T. (2001). Medication errors in the United States. Pharmacotherapy 21 ...

Article: Strategies to Reduce Medication Errors in ...
Journal of the National Medical Association;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... to decrease medication errors in ambulatory ... practice * medication errors * awareness ... INTRODUCTION In the United States, an estimated ... estimates that medication errors account for ... year in the United States. A medication ...

Article: To reduce and prevent medication errors, the FDA ...
Drug Utilization Review;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... on important potential medication errors. To expedite the agency ... review of and response to medication errors, the proposed amendments ... of actual and potential medication errors occurring in the United States. The proposal also would ...

Article: Medication errors: How CMs can make care safer.
Hospital Case Management;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... two-part series on medication errors. Next month, the authors ... another important report on medication errors was released by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP ... The report on 6,224 medication errors from 56 community, government ...