During CAP's practice survey site visits with members, many questions arise about medication expiration dates, their validity, and what practices should do.

This week's Risk E-Notes will address the following question posed to the CAP Hotline: May our office staff or medical assistants approve e-prescribed refill requests from a pharmacy? 

If you receive a deposition subpoena as a treating physician, you must either appear at the time and location designated or, by mutual agreement, arrange a more convenient time and location.

According to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), the number of accidental mix-ups of pediatric (DTaP) and adult (Tdap) vaccines used to immunize patients against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough) is alarming.

An analysis of CAP's pediatric claims identified the most common problem as the failure to diagnose a physical condition, most often, meningitis or sepsis.