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M R Cohen

Publications and source records attributed to M R Cohen.

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PubMed1994

Failure mode and effects analysis: a novel approach to avoiding dangerous medication errors and accidents.

It is time that hospitals realize that human error is inevitable and must be anticipated. A technique developed in the aerospace industry and known as "failure mode and effects analysis" involves identifying mistakes that will happen before they happen, and determining whether the consequences of those mistakes would be tolerable or intolerable. This article shows how this practice can be adapted to a hospital environment by using a continuous quality improvement approach. Examples show how actual fatal errors can be prevented.

Accident Prevention↗
PubMed1994

Orientation teaching tool to prevent medication error.

Patients can be harmed and even killed when a medication error occurs. The following questions are based on actual errors which have been reported through the Medication Error Reporting Program (MERP). This teaching tool is intended as a take home test to make newly hired pharmacists aware of common medication errors. An informed practitioner is another layer of safety in decreasing the possibility of a medication error occurring.

Education, Pharmacy, Continuing↗
PubMed1994

Systemic disease in subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus: a controlled comparison with systemic lupus erythematosus.

OBJECTIVE: We sought to compare the prevalence of systemic disease in subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (SCLE) with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). METHODS: Clinical and laboratory features of 14 patients with SCLE were compared with 22 age and sex matched controls with SLE. RESULTS: Manifestations other than arthritis and skin disease were present in 11/14 (79%) SCLE cases compared with 19/22 (82%) SLE cases. Severe systemic disease occurred in one-half of patients with SCLE (5/7 men, 1/7 women), and most had the papulosquamous pattern. CONCLUSION: Systemic manifestations may be as varied in SCLE as in SLE, and severe disease is not unusual. In particular, men with papulosquamous SCLE may be at higher risk for severe extracutaneous disease.

Adult↗