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When pharmacy teams avoid difficult conversations after near-miss medication errors

My community pharmacy team has been dealing with a significant medication error that we caught before it reached the patient but we've all been tiptoeing around what actually went wrong because it involves both our workflow problems and one person's specific mistake. We fixed the immediate issue but I don't think we've really learned from it because we're not talking honestly about what happened and why.

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Your team fixed a near-miss mistake but won't talk honestly about how it happened.

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