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Preventing vincristine administration errors.

July 20, 2005

Sentinel Event Alert. 2005;34(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. Note: This alert has been retired effective August 2016. Please refer to the information link below for further details.

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