One cause of malpractice injuries in Maryland is medication errors. Most are harmless but a minority of medication mistakes end in tragedy.
Two leading health care organizations announce a plan to reduce medication errors, announcing a new national alert system that helps prevent dangerous and repeated medication errors. The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) are partnering to develop the National Alert Network for Serious Medication Errors (NAN).
Will it help? Who knows? But we need to try more solutions to the medical error problem in this country, even if it means a few failed plans.
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