Stemming drug errors from abbreviations

Drug Topics | July 1, 2002| | Copyright

Problem: Abbreviations and acronyms save time; they can also lead to medication errors. Not all practitioners interpret abbreviations uniformly, and, therefore, the intended meaning is not always conveyed.

Historically, medication errors have resulted from incorrect interpretation of poorly written, ambiguous, or unfamiliar abbreviations and acronyms-- with poor penmanship the primary cause of these errors. Healthcare practitioners are discovering, however, that typed abbreviations are prone to misinter-- pretation as well. On different occasions, an Rx with the abbreviation MTX has been ...

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