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Preventing Medication Errors — National Academies Press

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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
Raw CSL JSON
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  "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

  1. 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."
    Locator: page: 17 · Quote language: en
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