Medication Errors in Hospitals–-It's Everyone's Fault

A patient was admitted to the hospital and got three times their normal dose of phenytoin resulting in phenytoin toxicity and a long hospital stay. Analysis of the error revealed problems with hospital organization, supervision issues and having an environment that facilitates errors. Errors don't occur simply because one clinician makes a mistake—rather they occur because the hospital system fails to prevent them. Related article: Phenytoin Toxicity—A Significant Adverse Drug Event

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Medication Errors in Hospitals–-It's Everyone's Fault is an episode from JAMA Performance Improvement: Do No Harm—Taking complications head on to improve the quality of medical care by American Medical Association.

This episode is 18:37 long.

This episode was published on Jun 20, 2017.

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