Mr. Distasio speaks about the overwhelming statistics on medication errors in hospitals and pharmacies.
Information on Medication Errors
Medication error injuries occur when Doctors, pharmacies, and hospital employees make mistakes with prescribed medications.
Some doctors simply have poor handwriting. What looks like one type of medication or dose of medication is actually another.
Pharmacies can fill prescriptions with the wrong medication because many medications have similar names or they can fill the prescription with the wrong dose of medication. Such errors often occur in high volume pharmacies that have assistants instead of pharmacists filling prescriptions.
Hospital employees can give the wrong medication or dose to their patients. Such errors often occur because of poor communication with the physician or poor communication between staff at shift changes.
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