USP: Staff performance a major cause of radiology drug errors
Executive Briefings Digest, March 21, 2006
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Staff who failed to follow the proper procedures accounted for half of all errors involving radiological drugs and services between 2000 and 2004, according to a report issued in January 2006 by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP).
These performance deficit errors-on which staff received but failed to follow proper training-led to 50.3% of all radiological services errors reported to the USP MedMaRx database. Of the 2,032 medication errors reported in radiological services from 2000 to 2004, 12.0% resulted in patient harm, more than seven times the percentage of harmful errors in the general MedMaRx data set and the highest percentage of harmful errors in the overall data since 1999, USP reported.
The American College of Radiology disputes the MedMaRx findings, noting that during the study period in which 2,032 radiology-related medication errors occurred, radiologists performed nearly 2.5 billion imaging procedures nationwide.
Source: Hospital Pharmacy Regulation Report
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