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Rampant drug errors in hospitals are preventable, study says.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-OCT-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Last July, 16-year-old Jasmine Gant died during induced labor after a nurse mistakenly infused her IV with an epidural anesthetic instead of penicillin at St. Mary's Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. Gant is one of at least 1.5 million Americans who will be injured or killed this year--and every year--by preventable medication errors unless systems for prescribing and administering drugs are revamped, according to a recent report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a branch of the National Academy of Sciences.

These errors usually stem from health care practitioners' failure to ensure five "rights"--that the right patient receives the right drug, in the...

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