Medication Error

Serious medication errors occur over one million times each year. A large percentage of these errors are life threatening. Prescribing incorrect medication, wrong dosages, or improperly combining medications can cause adverse reactions with potentially fatal results. Medication prescribed regardless of incomplete patient information, such as ignorance of possible drug allergies, other medications taken, previous diagnoses, and lab results, can result in disaster.

Common Medication Mistakes

Preventable errors occur because safeguards for prescribing and ordering medications are not appropriately used.

• A widely recognized cause of error is illegible handwriting on the part of the prescribing physician.
• Errors may result from insufficient or missing information about co-prescribed medications, past dose-response relationships, laboratory values and allergic sensitivities.
• Errors in prescribing can occur when an incorrect drug or dose is selected, or when a regimen is too complex.
• When prescriptions are transmitted orally, sound-alike drug names may cause confusion.
• Similarly, drugs with similar-looking names can be incorrectly dispensed when prescriptions are handwritten.
• Physician sampling of medications can contribute to medication errors due to the lack of both adequate documentation and drug utilization review.

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Medical Malpractice Links

• Birth And Brain Injuries
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• Medication Errors
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• Hospital Infections
• Other Medical Malpractice

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