AHRQ Patient Safety Network ► Technology and error-prevention strategies: why are we still overlooking the IV room?

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Technology and error-prevention strategies: why are we still overlooking the IV room?

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. January 15, 2015;20:1-4.

This newsletter article discusses factors that contribute to sterile compounding errors and limited adoption of improvement strategies, including normalized deviance, lack of evidence-based training, poor understanding about best practices, and practitioner reluctance to change behaviors.

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