U.S. Pharmacopeia 8th Annual MEDMARX(R) Report Indicates Look-Alike/Sound-Alike Drugs Lead to Thousands of Medication Errors ...(ts inception in 1998 MEDMARX has receive...),Health

Date:1/29/2008

ts inception in 1998, MEDMARX has received more than 1.2 million reports of medication errors from more than 870 health care facilities across the U.S. MEDMARX is the largest nongovernmental, Internet- accessible database of medication errors in the U.S. USP also operates, in conjunction with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, a Medication Errors Reporting Program (MER). Data from MER, which allows health care professionals to report potential and actual medication errors directly to USP on a confidential and anonymous basis, were also used in compiling the MEDMARX report. USP recently announced a strategic alliance with Quantros(TM), providers of hospital applications. Under this arrangement, the MEDMARX database will grow even larger and more robust with the addition of Quantros' extensive patient-safety events database.

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