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Tablet crushing: the law!
Richard Griffith
Nurse2nurse, Volume: 3, Issue: 10, Pages: 23 - 4
Swansea University Author: Richard Griffith
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Abstract
<p>A strict legal framework regulates the supply and administration of medicines to protect public safety, yet every year approximately 10,000 serious adverse drug reactions are reported in the NHS (Audit Commission 2002). The Department of Health (DOH) suggests that half of these are avoidabl...
| Published in: | Nurse2nurse |
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| ISSN: | 1473-2114 |
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2003
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<p>A strict legal framework regulates the supply and administration of medicines to protect public safety, yet every year approximately 10,000 serious adverse drug reactions are reported in the NHS (Audit Commission 2002). The Department of Health (DOH) suggests that half of these are avoidable errors in medication administration (DOH 2000). Disquiet over administration errors by the DOH and audit commission has focused on the widespread practice of crushing tablets. In a recent survey 84% of staff working in Nursing and Residential care admitted crushing tablets (Wright 2002).</p> |
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| College: |
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
| Issue: |
10 |
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23 |
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4 |