Maura Hohman

Currently, there’s no tool to help prescribers avoid mixing up drugs, but researchers have created a model to address the all-too-common mix-up of medications because they sound or look alike (SALA).

This comprehensive grading system for hospital safety found that patients at facilities with a D or F mark were 92% more likely to die of an avoidable error than those at A-ranked hospitals.

Mix medical alarms with vomiting, coughing, telephones and blaring intercoms and you’ve got a sonic torture chamber, AKA a hospital.

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