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Podcast: JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm—Taking complications head on to improve the quality of medical care
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Medication Errors in Hospitals–-It’s Everyone’s Fault
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:18:37
Publish Date: 2017-06-20 10:00:00
Description:

A patient was admitted to the hospital and got three times their normal dose of phenytoin resulting in phenytoin toxicity and a long hospital stay. Analysis of the error revealed problems with hospital organization, supervision issues and having an environment that facilitates errors. Errors don’t occur simply because one clinician makes a mistake—rather they occur because the hospital system fails to prevent them.

Related article: Phenytoin Toxicity—A Significant Adverse Drug Event
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