Medication Error - Medication Error Reporting Programs

Background

Medication errors cause at least one death every day and injure approximately 1.3 million people annually in the United States. Medication mishaps can occur anywhere in the distribution system:

1. prescribing,
2. repackaging,
3. dispensing,
4. administering, or
5. monitoring.

MEDICATION ERROR:To Err is Human

CDER Medications Error

• This Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) site offers an introduction to the topic of medication errors and a list of drug products associated with medication errors.
• www.fda.gov/cder/drug/mederrors/
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USP Medication Errors Reporting Program

• This web site presents health care professionals who encounter actual or potential medication errors with several options by which to report these incidents confidentially to U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP).
• www.usp.org/patientsafety/mer
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Medwatch

• MedWatch, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Medical Products Reporting Program
• www.fda.gov/medwatch/
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ISMP

• ISMP, The Institute provides an independent review of medication errors that have been voluntarily submitted by practitioners to a national Medication Errors Reporting Program
• www.ismp.org
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Reference

[1]http://www.fda.gov/cder/handbook/mederror.htm

(Added: 30-Jan-2007 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 2)
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