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South Carolina medication error bill is dangerously off target.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. April 9, 2015;20:1,4.

This newsletter article reports on issues related to a legislation, drafted in response to a tenfold dosing error, that would discipline nurses involved in medication errors. One particular concern highlighted is that the bill does not recognize the role of human error and systems failure in mistakes that result in patient harm.

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