Implementation of standardized dosing units for I.V. medications.

Benjamin Jung; Rick Couldry; Samaneh Wilkinson; Dennis Grauer

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Implementation of standardized dosing units for I.V. medications.

January 21, 2015

Jung B, Couldry R, Wilkinson S, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2014;71(24):2153-8.

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This case study describes how the introduction of an electronic health record system at an academic medical center revealed that multiple dosing units could be ordered for some intravenous medications. For example, epinephrine could be ordered either as micrograms per minute or as micrograms per kilogram per minute. Following multiple stakeholder meetings and analyses, a strategy for standardization was adopted which led to decreased risks for medication errors.

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