PTCE - Patient Safety and Quality Assurance - Section 3.1
Identify high-alert and high-risk medications and look-alike/sound-alike (LASA) medication pairs.
Identify ISMP high-alert and high-risk medications that carry a heightened potential for patient harm, and recognise common look-alike/sound-alike (LASA) drug pairs. Apply Tall Man lettering and physical inventory separation as strategies to reduce LASA-related dispensing errors.
High-alert medicationLASAISMPTall Man lettering
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