Reducing Medical Errors

Contact Hours: 2.0

ACPE UAN: 0384-9999-19-102-H05-T

The National Pharmacy Technician Association (NPTA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for
Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

Target Audience: Certified Pharmacy Technicians

This CPE activity has been designated as a knowledge-based program.

Author: Gregory Phillip, PharmD

Faculty Disclosures/Conflicts of Interest: Author declared no conflict of interest and all information is provided fairly and without bias. Author received no commercial/financial support for this activity and do not approve or endorse any commercial products displayed.

Goals & Objectives:

At the completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Discuss the prevalence of medical errors in United States.

• Describe the efforts to reduce medical errors at national and state level.

• List the incentives for healthcare providers and facilities to reduce medical errors.

• Discuss Florida’s effort to reduce and prevent medical errors and improve patient safety.

• List the most common types of medical errors occurs in healthcare settings.

• List factors that increases risk of medical errors.

• Discuss prevention of medical errors in special needs population.

• List recommendations on reducing or eliminating medical and medication errors.

• List steps in improving patient safety through prompt reporting of errors. Identify responsibilities of healthcare providers for prompt reporting of medical errors.

• Discuss JACHO’s patient safety goals.

Release Date: 03/18/2019

Expiration Date: 03/18/2022