Meeting
Abstract Number: 388
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Medical error is now the third leading cause of death in the United States. Approximately 4% of hospitalized patients experience an adverse event with 20% of these adverse events being medication-related, three-fourths of which are prescribing and administration errors. Vancomycin has been reported to account for one-fourth of the medication errors. Prescribing vancomycin is […]