Your high-alert medication list—relatively useless without associated risk-reduction strategies.

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Your high-alert medication list—relatively useless without associated risk-reduction strategies.

June 10, 2018

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. April 4, 2013;18:1-5.

This newsletter article recommends that high-alert medication lists be updated and reviewed regularly to ensure their efficacy in preventing errors and offers other strategies to reduce risks associated with medication use.

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