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Do you think pharmacists should start making rounds with doctors to reduce medication errors?

Getting the Dosage Right Fri Nov 8,11:52 PM ET FRIDAY, Nov. 8 -- Medication errors decrease by 51 percent when a clinical pharmacist is included on daily patient rounds in hospitals. That startling finding comes from a study in the latest issue of the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. The inclusion of a pharmacist on patient rounds also reduces the duration of medication errors, the study says. The study also found that when a pharmacist took part in daily rounds, medication errors persisted less than a day and with less than one dose of medication. In the control group, errors persisted for 2.4 days and with two doses of medication....

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