Volume 7, Issue 6
Medication Safety Alert! November/December 2019
In this issue:
- Speaking Up About Patient/Resident Safety Requires an Observant Questioner and a High Index of Suspicion
- Worth repeating… Ring that remains after removing tamper-evident cap can fall off
- Confusion over antiretroviral therapy abbreviation leads to error
- Double trouble: similar drug names and labels
- Worth reading… Errors associated with splitting, crushing, and opening oral medications