Approaches to prevent medication error due to similar labeling and packaging of drugs at a brazilian teaching hospital

• In: Hospital Pharmacy Section - Poster Session
• At: Salvadore (Brazil) (2006)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: HPS-P-004
• By: SAKAI, Maria Cristina (Hospital Universitário da USP, Serviço de Farmácia, SÃo Paulo, Brazil)
• Co-author(s): Takahashi, Patricia S. K. (Hospital Universitário da USP, SÃO PAULO, Brazil)
  Luppi Jr., Pedro (Hospital Universitário da USP, SÃO PAULO, Brazil)
  Zolcsak, Roberta Q. (Hospital Universitário da USP, SÃO PAULO, Brazil)
  Sousa, Altamir B. (Hospital Universitário da USP, SÃO PAULO, Brazil)
  Ribeiro, Eliane (Hospital Universitário da USP, SÃO PAULO, Brazil)
  
• Abstract:

  INTRODUCTION / OBJECTIVE
  
  Similar labeling and packaging of drugs is one of the top ten causes of medication errors according to United States Pharmacopoeia reports. It increases not only the risk of an accidental interchange of drugs but also the administration of a wrong medication. So, the aims of the present study were to highlight the..

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