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Is Medical School Training The Most Effective Way To Reduce Prescribing Errors?

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Amongst all prescribers of medications, the greatest danger to patients may be a  function of the prescriber and the content and quality of training one gets learning how to prescribe. Although one can make the case that prescribing errors are normally distributed across all prescribers, the data do no support this assertion. According to the Institute of Medicine, physicians make the most errors when prescribing medications.
Depending upon the study, it is estimated that about 100,000 people die as a ...

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