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Survey shows room for improvement with two new ISMP Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices.
August 12, 2020
ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute care edition. July 30, 2020;25(15).
This article reports on the results of a survey on the use of practices to improve the safety of prescribing and dispensing of long-acting opioids and use of the override feature in automated dispensing cabinets. The approximately 250 hospitals responding shared experience indicating weakness in implementing improvement efforts on the two practices studied. The results found that hospitals employing a medication safety officer had stronger uptake of the best practices.
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