Serious medication errors are common in hospitals and often occur during order transcription or administration of medication. To help prevent such errors, technology has been developed to verify ...
Computer physician order entry systems (CPOES) can potentially miss half of routine medication orders and one third of potentially fatal medication orders, a report released by The Leapfrog Group ...
The new JCAHO medication management standards place a greater emphasis on medication safety than did previous standards. The new standards are also more prescriptive and have a larger number of more ...