Four ways to reduce dangerous medical errors at your hospital
managedhealthcareexecutive.modernmedicine.com
It’s human nature, everyone makes mistakes. But the consequences of those mistakes can range wildly not only according to their severity, but also depending on who commits them. When a marketer makes a typo on a press release, the worst case scenario is typically a minor loss of credibility. If a healthcare practitioner were to make the same mistake on a patient’s chart, say by accidentally prescribing clozapine instead of olanzapine (two look-alike, sound-alike drugs, which are often confused), the result could be catastrophic.