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Medication Safety: Averting Highest-Risk Errors Is First Priority

May 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

Not all medication errors are created equal. In efforts to improve patient safety, healthcare systems need to give first priority to averting the medication errors with the greatest potential for harm.

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Technology – Getting to the Recall on Time: Improve Safety with Automated Recall Management

May 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

For several months in late 2001, The Johns Hopkins Hospital unknowingly used a defective bronchoscope that resulted in 2 deaths and 400 injuries.

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Technology – Advancing Patient Safety in Laparoscopy: The Active Electrode Monitoring System

May 1, 2005 ‐ Leslie Proctor

In the past, use of monopolar electrosurgery in open surgical procedures involved the risk of external skin injury due to an alternate return path or compromised return electrode.

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