Volume 5, Issue 2
Medication Safety Alert! February 2017
In this month’s issue:
- What Price Must We Pay for Safety? Excessive Cost of EPINEPHrine Auto-Injectors Leads to Error-Prone Use of Ampuls or Vials
- Potential issues with new basal insulin/GLP-1 fixed combinations. New safety challenges?
- Pradaxa must be dispensed in its original container
- Lantus overdose tied to confusing vial label
- What's in a name - wrong resident errors
- When less than is greater than
- Errors involving less used therapies
- ED visits for elderly patients from adverse drug events