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N 2007, actor Dennis Quad’s newborn twins received a potentially life-threatening medication error. After reading the following article, What steps that the hospital could take to potentially avoid this error in the future?

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Slips and laps, knowledge-based mistakes deliberate violations are the most commonly reported hazardous behavior in the hospitals. All members of the healthcare team should be thoroughly trained and legally responsible for the medical decisions they make. The hospital should also reduce or remove the error-provoking conditions influencing drug administration mistakes. Adequate written communication between healthcare team members, medicine supply and storage efficiency, reasonable workload, high quality equipment, managed patient factors , limited/absent interruptions during administration are some key elements to avoid error in the future.

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