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ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. April 8, 2010;15:1-3.
Detailing a recent lethal overdose of heparin, this piece describes common risks and offers suggestions to improve the safety of heparin administration.
Jani YH, Ghaleb MA, Marks SD, et al. J Pediatr. 2008;152:214-8.
Complex drug regimens have been associated with medication errors in pediatric ambulatory practice. This study found that a commercial electronic prescribing system nearly eliminated handwriting errors in a pediatric specialty clinic, though actual adverse drug events were not measured.
A woman undergoes surgery and immediately has blurry vision, mistakenly attributed to ointment. Two weeks later, she returns complaining of blindness in one eye.