ISMP List of Error-Prone Abbreviations, Symbols, and Dose Designations¶
Institute for Safe Medication Practices. (2021). ISMP List of Error-Prone Abbreviations, Symbols, and Dose Designations.
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- Ambiguous unit and dose labels — "mg" misread as "mcg" (a 1000-fold error), or a trailing "U" for units decompressed as a zero — are recurring root causes in adverse-event analyses, so the Institute for Safe Medication Practices publishes a list of error-prone abbreviations and symbols
This sourceThe Institute for Safe Medication Practices' List of Error-Prone Abbreviations, Symbols, and Dose Designations, compiled from items reported to the ISMP National Medication Errors Reporting Program.
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“The ISMP List of Error-Prone Abbreviations, Symbols, and Dose Designations contains abbreviations, symbols, and dose designations which have been reported through the ISMP National Medication Errors Reporting Program (ISMP MERP)”
- Ambiguous unit and dose labels — "mg" misread as "mcg" (a 1000-fold error), or a trailing "U" for units decompressed as a zero — are recurring root causes in adverse-event analyses, so the Institute for Safe Medication Practices publishes a list of error-prone abbreviations and symbols
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