What Do We Know About Medication Errors in Inpatient Psychiatry?
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and SafetyPublished 1 August 2003
Benjamin C. Grasso, Jeffrey M. Rothschild, Robert Genest, David W. Bates
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Psychiatrists would benefit from learning about the terminology used in describing medication errors and ADEs, and clinical and pharmacy staff could monitor the literature for published reports of preventable adverse events and review those reports in multidisciplinary team meetings.
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Psychiatry would benefit from learning about the terminology used in describing medication errors and ADEs. Relatively few data are available regarding the frequency and consequences of medication errors in psychiatry; more research is needed.
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