medication errors

Computerized doctors' orders reduce medication errors

harminka — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:54:10 -0500

Doctors are famous for sloppy scribbling — and handwritten prescriptions lead to thousands of medication errors each year. Electronics to the rescue: U.S. hospitals that switched to computerized physician order entry systems saw a 66 percent drop in prescription errors, according to a new review of studies.

Patients at serious risk of medication errors due to wrong translation of prescription labels

harminka — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:08:20 -0500

Despite widespread capacity to provide prescription medication labels in languages other than English, few New York City pharmacies do so and as a result, limited-English patients face serious risk of medication error, according to a study by The New York Academy of Medicine presented today at the annual meeting of the Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM) in Toronto, Ontario.

Pharmacists' Workload Contributes To Errors

harminka — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:55:10 -0500

High workloads for pharmacists increase the potential for medication errors, says a new study by University of Arizona College of Pharmacy researchers published in the May issue of the journal Medical Care.

Medication errors detecting among transplant patients

harminka — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:31:15 -0500

Medication errors appear to be common, often hidden and associated with adverse events among patients receiving outpatient care after an organ transplant, according to a report in the March issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The health care system is involved with nearly one-third of these errors.

Poor ward care is harming patients

harminka — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:32:31 -0600

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harminka — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 07:46:07 -0600