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Preventing Medication Errors
(Quality Chasm Series.) By the Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors and the Board on Health Care Services. Edited by Philip Aspden, Julie A. Wolcott, J. Lyle Bootman, and Linda R. Cronenwett. 463 pp. Washington, DC, National Academies Press, 2007. $54.95. ISBN 978-0-309-10147-9.

Medication Errors
Second edition. Edited by Michael R. Cohen. 680 pp., illustrated. Washington, DC, American Pharmacists Association, 2007. $89.95. ISBN 978-1-58212-092-8.

Health care is inherently risky, and filling a handwritten prescription could be the most dangerous of all medical procedures. Medication errors, which are often caused by illegible handwriting, are a subgroup of medical errors and may cause as many as 7000 of the 98,000 deaths in the United States each year that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) attributes to medical errors. Now the IOM, in its new report in the Quality Chasm Series, Preventing Medication Errors, estimates that in the United States, the average hospital patient is subject to at least one medication error per day and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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