How can healthcare facilities ensure that the right drug is going to the right patient, through the right route, with the right dose, at the right time? These five “rights” of medication administration get to the heart of infusion system safety. Marilyn Neder Flack, senior vice president of patient safety initiatives at AAMI and director of the AAMI Foundation, and Deborah Pasko, director of medication safety and quality at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), talk about the incredible progress that’s been made on this front—and how more work is needed in areas such as drug library management and user-friendly design practices. Sponsored by Smiths Medical. – See more at: http://www.aami.org/newsviews/Podcasts.aspx?navItemNumber=791#sthash.QKaJ6EYn.dpuf
By Terry Baker