Medical errors prevention

The USP Advisory Panel on Medication Errors offers a unique and unprecedented opportunity among health care professionals to provide peer review of medication errors occurring nationally and to recommend far-reaching strategies for medication error prevention. 

EFFECTIVE MEDICATION ERROR PREVENTION THROUGH REPORTING AND MONITORING SYSTEMS... 

Multidisciplinary educational programs should be developed for health care personnel about medication error prevention. Because many errors happen when procedures are not followed, this is one area on which to focus through newsletters and in-service training. It also is important for pharmacy staff not just to focus on their own internal errors but also to look at other pharmacies errors and methods of prevention and to learn from them. Organizations such as the ISMP, USP, and many others provide ongoing features to facilitate these reviews in publications such as Hospital Pharmacy, Pharmacy Today, U.S. Pharmacist, and Pharmacy and Therapeutics or newsletters that report on current medication safety issues and offer recommendations for changes. 

Will you include medication error prevention strategies in the orientation process for new employees and ongoing education for pharmacy staff ... 

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Medication error prevention opportunities also may present themselves in unusual hospital programmatic... 

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Therapeutic drug monitoring Practice guideline development and adherence Medication error prevention and tracking Quality improvement Pharmacoeconomic assessment... 

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It helps teach patients and their families as well as other external caretakers how best to participate in medical error prevention. 

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