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California has discovered an amazing fact. Technicians trained and employed to do nothing but check the work of other technicians find errors.

Tech-Check-Tech: New California Regulation Will Help Prevent Medication Errors

Regulation which took effect on Jan. 5, 2007, is designed to reduce medication errors in California hospitals and free pharmacists for greater involvement in direct patient care rather than in non-discretionary (clerical) tasks. The new regulation will allow general acute care hospitals to employ specially trained pharmacy technicians to check medication cassettes and the work of other technicians, thereby freeing pharmacists to expand their role in patient care areas to ensure the safety of the medication use process.

The results of the first "tech-check-tech" study, which were published in the American Journal of Healthy-System Pharmacy in 2002, demonstrated the safety of having specially-trained technicians check the work of other technicians to prevent medication errors.

It is anticipated that the next reduction in errors will be achieved by the "tech-check-tech-check-tech-check-tech" program now under study.

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