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Oct 28, 2009 09:01 PM

Increasing med-admin safety with no-tech/low-tech


A good article with many specific tips on increasing medication-administration accuracy and safety, without buying high tech:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...MNIM1AB9DB.DTL

"A UCSF program to improve accuracy in administering drugs - with particular emphasis on reducing interruptions that often lead to mistakes - resulted in a nearly 88 percent drop in errors over 36 months at the nine Bay Area hospitals, according to results being released today. "


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