<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3798c165-77b5-4f20-b71b-691dc002977b/A2858ADB-4760-4AC2-908B-BFEFE49C1CF0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsdrug0130,0,5434758.story" href="http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsdrug0130,0,5434758.story" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newsday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsdrug0130,0,5434758.story"><H1>Boom in similar drug names fuels medicine mix-ups</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsdrug0130,0,5434758.story"><DIV> Examining records submitted by 870 hospitals to MEDMARX, a database run by the United States Pharmacopeia, researchers discovered glaring, and sometimes deadly, medication errors linked to sound-alike, look-alike medication names. USP is a nonprofit agency that sets standards on prescription and nonprescription drugs, working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as well as pharmaceutical companies.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsdrug0130,0,5434758.story"><DIV> In the new report, its eighth assessment of medication errors, USP researchers found that 1.4 percent of the mistakes resulted in harm, including seven errors that may have caused or contributed to the deaths of patients.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsdrug0130,0,5434758.story"> With MEDMARX, hospitals participate anonymously and voluntarily. Because the database does not include every hospital in the United States, the number of actual medication errors is probably higher, USP researchers say.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A2858ADB-4760-4AC2-908B-BFEFE49C1CF0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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