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A hard look at hard stops and workarounds in the acute care setting.
July 12, 2023
ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute care edition. June 29, 2023;28(13);1-4.
Hard stops in the electronic medical record prevent continuation of ordering, dispensing, or administering an unsafe medication to a patient. This article presents system-level recommendations to effectively introduce hard stops such as including physicians and pharmacists in decision making to reduce risk of workarounds in the future.
