Legal risk management opportunities, pharmacy practice, and P&T committees: Part 1: Deconstructing dispensing errors

摘要

The insurance giant CNA, through its professional liability insurance partner Healthcare Providers Service Organization (HPSO), recently released "2013 Pharmacist Liability," a comprehensive analysis of claims experience. This report, which looks at 10 years of closed claims, details rates of dispensing and other errors as well as injuries and adverse outcomes associated with these claims.An article on pharmacy-related professional liability risk exposures, based on an insurance company's claims analysis? Why does a P&T committee member need this information? Because, by examining practices that lead to malpractice claims and economic losses, P&T committees can better understand the risks and challenges they encounter on a daily basis.