I was reading this today: While these numbers are impressive, they are likely to be a significant underestimation of the problem. First, the two studies from which the statistics are extracted are believed to offer conservative figures because they were limited to injuries of a specified level of harm, they required a high threshold to determine whether an adverse event was preventable or negligent, and they included only those errors documented in patient records.2 Second, these statistics represent errors in hospitals only. More recently, Barker and colleagues observed a persistence of the problem in defining 19% of doses administered in health care facilities to be in error and 7% rated as potentially harmful.3
20% of the doses is impressive. Who was working with he Pharmacy modules? Was that Kevin? Is there a means for error reporting and tracking? Ruben ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
