Taken from the April Issue of the Joint Commission’s Newsletter

Joint Commission Alert: Prevent pediatric medication errors
Medications specifically made for adults and administered to children in health care facilities are putting young patients at greater risk for drug errors, according to a Joint Commission alert issued to improve pediatric safety. The Joint Commission’s latest Sentinel [...]

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The National Library of Medicine has a freely accessible database of drugs in lactation called LactMed.
You can search LactMed using either the common name or the medical name. For example, when I type in “Paxil” the first result I get is for “Paroxetine.”
A search will result in a summary of whether or not [...]

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