Anesthesia
Hand-Offs and Lack of Coordination During the Surgical Experience Contribute to High Rate of Harmful Medication Errors
Published in Hospital Business Week, March 25th, 2007
Perioperative patients face an increased risk of harmful medication errors throughout the surgery process due to a lack of comprehensive oversight of medications, according to the 7th annual national MEDMARX(R) Data Report released today. The report studied medication errors in the perioperative setting -- including outpatient surgery, the preoperative holding area, the operating room and the post anesthesia care unit.
As the largest known national analyses of perioperative medication errors, the MEDMARX report examined more than 11,000 medication errors in the perioperative setting and revealed that 5% of the errors resulted in harm, including four deaths. This...
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