On July 17, CMS issued a memo to state health departments inspecting nursing homes on its behalf about the use of a new tool designed to help determine whether or not the homes are taking adequate steps to prevent and respond to medication errors, according to ProPublica.
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Coumadin and its generic version, warfarin, can be a life saving drug when the correct dose is administered, but studies going back as far as 2007 estimate that each year 34,000 nursing home residents suffer fatal, life-threatening or serious events related to incorrect dosage of the drug.
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