- Sentinel Event Alerts
- Published July 2005
Preventing vincristine administration errors.
The Joint Commission. Sentinel Event Alert. July 14, 2005;(34):1-3.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) issued this alert to bring attention to a rare but potentially severe administration error reported with the cancer drug vincristine. A previous editorial discusses similar errors.
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