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JULY 26, 2017

Medication Safety Program Reduces Drug Administration Errors

New York—A Perioperative Systems Improvement program, put into place to review and respond to medication errors, has resulted in significant improvements at Boston Children’s Hospital.

In an effort to decrease adverse medical events caused by drug administration errors, researchers there conducted a retrospective analysis of errors made from 2008 through 2016. Information was obtained from mandatory error reports incorporated into the anesthesia medical record and from manual chart