CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
Preventing Medication Errors — National Academies Press
- Key
- iom2007preventing-medication-errors
- Authors
- Institute of Medicine, Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors
- Issued
- 2007
- Type
- book
- Publisher
- National Academies Press
- Publisher place
- Washington, DC
- DOI
- 10.17226/11623
Raw CSL JSON
{
"DOI": "10.17226/11623",
"URL": "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11623/preventing-medication-errors",
"type": "book",
"title": "Preventing Medication Errors",
"author": [
{
"literal": "Institute of Medicine, Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors"
}
],
"editor": [
{
"given": "Philip",
"family": "Aspden"
},
{
"given": "Julie A.",
"family": "Wolcott"
},
{
"given": "J. Lyle",
"family": "Bootman"
},
{
"given": "Linda R.",
"family": "Cronenwett"
}
],
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
[
2007
]
]
},
"publisher": "National Academies Press",
"publisher-place": "Washington, DC",
"collection-title": "Quality Chasm Series"
}
Claims
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The Institute of Medicine committee recommended that all prescribers write prescriptions electronically by 2010 and that all pharmacies be able to receive them electronically, noting that electronic prescribing eliminates handwriting.
"Write prescriptions electronically by 2010. Also by 2010, all pharmacies should be able to receive prescriptions electronically."
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