News Report | May 22, 2000
Medication Error Poses Key Risk for Behavioral Health Field
May 22, 2000
Medication Error Poses Key Risk for Behavioral Health Field
Behavioral health organizations should be concerned with medication errors and patient restraint errors and develop policies to address these issues. A recent issue of Accreditation Connection, an online newsletter from www.accreditinfo.com, provided several tips on danger zones for medical errors, citing an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report that estimated fatal medical errors at between 44,000 and 98,000 each year. Behavioral health organizations are not immune to the problem of medical errors and . . .