A recent report from the Institute of Medicine showed that 1.5 million Americans are injured or killed by medication errors annually. Studies indicate that approximately 400,000 PREVENTABLE drug-related injuries occur each year in hospitals and another 800,000 occur in long-term care settings.
Is this necessary? Do health care professionals not realize they are dealing with another person's life? Most of these errors are made due to "human error", poor hand writing or carelessness. Health care facilities are trying to step things up a notch and use bar-code technology and other tracking/monitoring strategies which should help take away some of the errors but unfortunately it's not 100%.
No comments:
Post a Comment