Volume 3, Issue 10
Medication Safety Alert! October 2015
In this month's issue:
- Recommendations to prevent vaccine errors Part 2: Analysis of ISMP Vaccines Errors Reporting Program (ISMP VERP)
- Misread handwritten orders
- Inappropriate use of the comment field
- CDC issues core elements for antibiotic prescriptions in nursing homes
- Dose-checking software is important
- Look-alike dose and dosage form designations can cause errors, too
- Clarify confusing orders