Monday, February 18, 2008

Slide 16



The following is a list of the most common look-alike/sound-alike medication pairs at Spectrum Health. They are NOT ranked in order of prevalence. Here are the measures in place to prevent such errors.


1.TALLman lettering, segregated storage, verbal/telephone orders disallowed, prepared and administered only by chemotherapy staff, and a variety of double checks.


2.TALLman lettering and segregated storage.


3.Segregated storage, LASA pop up alerts in Cerner and Pyxis, and double checks.

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