“In 2008, Linda Severson, RN, was called into her superintendent’s office after the facility had experienced a near miss pertaining to look-alike/sound-alike drugs. He asked her if there was anything she could do to prevent this kind of problem from happening again.
In response, Severson, who works at Cherokee Mental Health Institute (CMHI), in Cherokee, IA, took matters into her own hands and changed the CMHI computer system settings for all look-alike/sound-alike drugs so that they show up differently than the rest by default. This change brings additional attention to look-alike/sound-alike drugs to the person entering the record.”
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Sarah Kearns, HealthLeaders Media, 31 August 2009
