The simple thing hospitals can do to prevent dangerous drug mistakes
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After a Tennessee nurse killed a patient because of a drug error, the companies behind hospital medication cabinets said they'd make the devices safer. But did they?
Vaught was prosecuted this year in an extremely rare criminal trial for a medical mistake, but the drug mix-up at the center of her case is anything but rare. Computerized cabinets have become nearly ubiquitous in modern health care, and the technological vulnerability that made Vaught's error possible persists in many U.S. hospitals.
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