United States Pharmacopeia's (USP) Patient Safety Resources Available Online

Two patient safety resources are available, free of charge, from the United States Pharmacopeia's (USP) Center for the Advancement of Patient Safety - Quality Review No. 78:  Too Much Similarity and Quality Review No. 79: Use Caution - Avoid Confusion.

The first report is a summary of recent medication errors and recommendations on how to avoid similar mistakes. The second is an updated compendium of similar yet commonly confusing drug brand and generic names. The information for these two resources was obtained from the USP's MEDMARX program, an Internet-based anonymous hospital medication error reporting program, and from the organization's Medication Errors Reporting Program (MER).

The two resources are available at the USP website at the following:

• http://www.usp.org/patientSafety/briefsArticlesReports/qualityReview/qr782004-02-01.html;
• http://www.usp.org/patientSafety/briefsArticlesReports/qualityReview/qr792004-04-01.html

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