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Keep Safe - Minimize Risk of Medical Errors

Side Effects > Minimizing Your Risk of Harm from Medical Errors

Last update: 03/25/2008

	Symptoms checklist PDF
	Alert: Statins [commonly prescribed drug] Impair Antitumor Effects of Rituxan by Inducing Conformational Changes of CD20 medicine.plosjournals.org/ Statins were shown to interfere with both detection of CD20 and antilymphoma activity of rituximab. These studies have significant clinical implications, as impaired binding of mAbs to conformational epitopes of CD20 elicited by statins could delay diagnosis, postpone effective treatment, or impair anti-lymphoma activity of rituximab.
	Medical Error: the scope of the problem http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/errback.htm
	Minimizing Medical Errors - A Patient’s Guide - strategicvisionsinc.com pdf