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Study: Patient Harm More Common With Patient-Controlled Pain Medication

Published December 2, 2008, 4:12 am, Medical News Today

Intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) allows patients to control their own pain medication, but a new study published in the December 2008 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety shows that errors related to this practice are four times more likely to result in patient harm than errors that occur with other medications.

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