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Medication Errors in the Electronic Age
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Credit Offered
1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ Credit
1 Proprietary Copic Points Credit
Medication errors continue in the era of electronic health records, e-prescribing, and computerized physician order entry. Through a series of case-based examples, we explore how these errors occur and suggest practical approaches to reduce them.
  • Develop strategies to avoid medication errors and mitigate their effects.
  • Summarize the complex causes, attitudes, and systems that contribute to these types of errors as well as potential suggestions and solutions to reduce them.
  • List trends in claims and occurrences, and describe actions to decrease medication errors.
60 min.