The Good, the Bad, and the Iatrogenic: Medication Errors
Monday, May 19, 2025
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
CE: 1.00 AAPA Category 1 CME
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Polypharmacy is a common issue. Medications from multiple practitioners, OTC medications, and supplements can combine to cause reactions, known side effects, and sometimes hospitalization and death. Often this can be avoided. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) lists medication errors as the number one preventable issue in medicine. Using a collection of true-life stories collected from the National Kidney Foundation PAs and NPs nationwide, we present "The Good, the Bad and the Iatrogenic." Come and learn from your colleagues! We will include OTC and medical marijuana examples. New cases will be presented in this presentation.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:
Highlight medication errors that occur in the office, in the emergency room, and in the hospital using patient examples
Review both dosing and medication selection errors, including the pathophysiological rationale, for medication selection using patient examples
Highlight errors in OTC meds and cannabis using patient examples
