Selected medication safety risks that can easily fall off the radar screen part 1, part 2, and part 3. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Selected medication safety risks that can easily fall off the radar screen part 1, part 2, and part 3. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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• Published September 2018

Selected medication safety risks that can easily fall off the radar screen—part 1, part 2, and part 3.

Grissinger M. P T. 2018;43:521,567;585-586;645-646,666.

Although best practices that support safe and reliable medication therapy exist, they are not uniformly embedded in care delivery. This three-part series discusses medication safety risksand highlights topics such as wrong-patient orders, inadequate patient understanding of drug instructions, and poor lighting.

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