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Article: SEN. GRASSLEY COMMENTS ON INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE REPORT ON MEDICATION ERRORS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- July 20, 2006
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The Senate Finance Committee issued the following statement:
Sen. Chuck Grassley made the comment below in response to a report released today by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Preventing Medication Errors. The IOM study, which examined the incidence and costs of medication errors, was mandated by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), which Sen. Grassley sponsored as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance.
The IOM found that hospital patients are subjected to at least one medication error per day and at least 1.5 million preventable adverse drug events occur each year as a result of medication errors. While IOM found that data on the costs ...