title: Medication safety issue brief. Creating an alert and active team. Series II, Part 2.
abstract: Whenever an issue comes along that calls for creating yet another hospital committee, many executives understandably roll their eyes. But medication safety belongs at the top of a hospital's priority list. The challenge is to arrange the committee so that it uses input from throughout the hospital without making the effort so unwieldy that it prevents swift, regular action. Different hospitals have found their own ways to achieve that balance.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007324:Institutional Management Teams; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008510:Medication Systems, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D011367:Professional Staff Committees; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States