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MAY 20, 2022
‘Things Can Go Downhill’ From Med Errors for Patients With HIV
By Gina Shaw
MAY 6, 2022—Errors related to antiretroviral therapy (ART) among hospitalized patients with HIV can have a significant long-term negative impact, including treatment failure and drug resistance, as well as increasing healthcare costs, said Meshell Maxam, PharmD, at the MAD-ID 2022 (Making a Difference in Infectious Diseases) stewardship meeting.
“Things can really go downhill for these patients after that first medication error,” said Dr. Maxam, an HIV/infectious diseases clinical pharmacy specialist at Kaiser Permanente, in Atlanta.
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