Surveyors finding problems with medication standards.
* Nearly half (43%) of surveyed hospitals in the first half of 2007 were not compliant with the standard requiring medications be properly and safely stored. * One of the top issues The Joint Commission sees is facilities not ensuring medications are stored acceptably for product stability. * Review occurrence reports with risk managers and ask frontline staff what procedures they find difficult.
D004356:Drug Storage / Q000592:standards*; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D012308:Risk Management; D014481:United States