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These medication errors have occurred in health care facilities at least once. They will happen again-perhaps where you work. Through education and alertness of personnel and procedural safeguards, they can be avoided. You should consider publishing accounts of errors in your newsletters and/or presenting them in your inservice training programs.Your assistance is required to continue this feature. The reports described here were received through the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Medication Errors Reporting Program (MERP), which is presented in cooperation with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP). If you have encountered medication errors and would like to report them, you may call USP toll-free, 24 hours a day, at 800-233-7767 (800-23-ERROR).