• Sentinel Event Alerts
  • Published July 2005

Preventing vincristine administration errors.

The Joint Commission. Sentinel Event Alert. July 14, 2005;(34):1-3.

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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