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Dispensing Wisdom on Pharmacy and Medication Standards

By Jonathan Springston, Editor, AHC Media

Medication errors are the largest class of medical errors in healthcare today, and the most common cause of unnecessary readmissions. CMS said that drug-related adverse outcomes occur in 1.9 million inpatient stays, almost 5% of all admissions. In addition to inpatient stays, there are approximately 838,000 outpatients annually who experience a drug-related adverse event. Hospitals that spend more resources on medication issues generally demonstrate lower rates of adverse events.

Join AHC Media on Feb. 22 for a new webinar: “Pharmacy & Medication Standards: The New CMS CoPs.” During this session, attendees will learn about the proposed changes under the Hospital Improvement Act, including policies and procedures for timing of medication and related staff training. Other changes regard compounding of medication, beyond-use dates, and other changes necessary to bring the CoPs into alignment with acceptable standards of practice.

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For all the latest pharmaceutical news, be sure to check out Pharmacology Watch as well as the “Pharmacology Update” section in each issue of Internal Medicine Alert.