Settlement to be used for hospital training in labeling medicines.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

Settlement to be used for hospital training in labeling medicines.

September 21, 2005

Ostrom CM. The Seattle Times. September 13, 2005.

View more articles from the same authors.

This article reports on how one family and hospital will use personal tragedy to create awareness in practitioners of the importance of accurate labeling in hospitals.

Free full text (limited availability)

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

"Near injury" alters procedures at Virginia Mason.

May 4, 2015

Hospitals to tear up bills for medical mistakes.

February 13, 2008

Handwritten-prescription ban puts pharmacists in awkward position as "enforcers."

July 5, 2006

Suit filed over Virginia Mason Medical Center's error.

April 25, 2016

As college students return, a crisis in campus care awaits.

July 29, 2020

Rx for a better prescription. Hospital bans doctors from using confusing medical abbreviations.

October 5, 2005

Improving Patient Safety Through Informed Consent for Patients with Limited Health Literacy.

July 16, 2009

Before mea culpa, Children’s was confident its air systems weren’t source of infection

December 11, 2019

Seattle pilot’s misdiagnosis highlights challenges around coronavirus testing.

April 15, 2020

A lost voice.

March 1, 2017

Related Resources

Patient Safety Innovations

Patient and Family Centered I-PASS (Family-Centered Communication Program to Reduce Medical Errors and Improve Family Experience and Communication Processes)

January 31, 2024

Lyme disease is baffling, even to experts, but new insights are at last accumulating.

September 18, 2019

Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm.

May 13, 2019

Deadly Deliveries.

March 8, 2019

Fatal mistakes.

March 30, 2016

Consumer Guide to Adverse Health Events.

February 28, 2015

Malpractice makes perfect.

November 18, 2011

Fixing America's hospitals.

October 7, 2008

Get me out alive.

May 17, 2006

Saving lives: hospitals have signed on to a six-part plan to avoid a multitude of unnecessary deaths.

July 13, 2005

See More About The Topic

Hospitals

Health Care Providers

Health Care Executives and Administrators

Patients

Medication Safety