In 1996 the Institute of Medicine launched the Quality Chasm Series, a series of reports focused on assessing and improving the nation's quality of health care.

Given the large number of new drugs approved over the past 25 years--many highly potent and complex--it's no surprise that medication errors occur. Although mos

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Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research f

Learn to avoid or to address medication errors by focusing on the five "rights" of nursing drug administration: the right patient, the right drug, the right dos