The following are excerpts from the newsletter

• Looking forward: Make "pro-change" your New Year's Resolution
• ISMP joins the world in sympathy for tsunami victims.
• Incomplete verbal order communication in the pharmacy nearly leads to neonatal morphine overdose.
• Identical trade names for different generic medications can spell trouble in foreign countries.
• Janssen to change brand name REMINYL (galantamine hydrobromide) to prevent mix-ups with AMARYL (glimepiride).
• CAMPATH (alemtuzumab) concentration and label changes forthcoming.
• Error with mislabeled containers reinforces the need for organization-wide commitment to safety.
• National Summit on Medical Abbreviations results in modifications to National Patient Safety Goal 2b.
  
  

January 27, 2004