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  2. How can hospitals prevent medication errors? One ... - AOL

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    Dr. David Friedman’s time at Cook Children’s in Fort Worth helped me develop the idea to label IV lines. How can hospitals prevent medication errors? One company with Fort Worth roots has an idea

  3. Institute for Safe Medication Practices - Wikipedia

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    The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is an American 501(c)(3) organization focusing on the prevention of medication errors and promoting safe medication practices. [1] It is affiliated with ECRI .

  4. 7 Ways to Prevent Medical Errors - AOL

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  5. Bar code medication administration - Wikipedia

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    Bar code medication administration (BCMA) is a barcode system designed by Glenna Sue Kinnick to prevent medication errors in healthcare settings and to improve the quality and safety of medication administration. The overall goals of BCMA are to improve accuracy, prevent errors, and generate online records of medication administration.

  6. Medical error - Wikipedia

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    Variations in healthcare provider training & experience [45] [52] and failure to acknowledge the prevalence and seriousness of medical errors also increase the risk. [53] [54] The so-called July effect occurs when new residents arrive at teaching hospitals, causing an increase in medication errors according to a study of data from 1979 to 2006.

  7. Patient safety - Wikipedia

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    Patient safety is a discipline focused on improving health care through the prevention, reduction, reporting, and analysis of errors and other types of unnecessary harm that often lead to adverse patient events.

  8. Hospital medication errors left SoCal patients at risk. One ...

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    State regulators faulted two hospitals in Southern California for medication errors that put patients at risk, including one who suffered a brain bleed after receiving repeated doses of blood thinner.

  9. Health literacy - Wikipedia

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    The ability to read and understand medication instructions is a form of health literacy. Health literacy encompasses a wide range of skills, and competencies that people develop over their lifetimes to seek out, comprehend, evaluate, and use health information and concepts to make informed choices, reduce health risks, and increase quality of life.