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TJC - Enhanced Medication Safety
April 11, 2009 by admin
Improving communication and instituting double-checking protocols can catch a host of medication errors. Cerebyx versus Celebrex versus Celexa. The first drug is used to treat seizures, the second to relieve pain and inflammation, and the final one to treat depression. Vastly different applications, shockingly similar names. With a slip-up on a written prescription or a misinterpretation at the pharmacy, a patient may be taking something that is not needed and potentially harmful.
Health care practitioners are all too familiar with this scenario. According to the Institute of Medicine’s July 2006 report Preventing Medication Errors, medication errors harm an estimated 1.5 million people in the United States each year, resulting in upward of $3.5 billion in extra medical costs. Put into even more personal terms, every hospital patient may be subjected to as much as one medication error each day. These are shocking statistics for a largely preventable problem.
http://www.jointcommissioninternational.org/Medication-Safety-Articles/
By Jeannell M. Mansur
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