Prescription Errors, Medication Mistakes & Drug Defects
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Prescription Errors
A prescription error is any error that occurs during the prescribing process of any medication from the time it is ordered until it reaches the patient. For example, if a doctor prescribes 10 mgs. of Brintellix, but the pharmacist fills the bottle with 10 mgs. of Brilinta, that is a prescription error.
Medication Mistakes
A medication mistake is the improper administration or management of a medication that causes a patient serious harm or death. For example, giving a patient Coumadin but failing to monitor for adverse effects is a medication mistake.
Drug Defects
A defective drug is an over-the-counter or prescription medication that is known or should have been known to cause severe adverse effects and/or death to a patient.
In the News
Settlement reached in medication-error death at St. Charles
A settlement has been reached between the family of Loretta Macpherson, 65, and St. Charles in Bend after a medication error at the hospital led to the death of the Sisters resident in late 2014, an attorney and hospital officials confirmed Tuesday. The family’s attorney, Jennifer Coughlin said Tuesday she cannot disclose the amount of
Read MoreHospitals’ medicine mistakes spike, but more mysteries revealed
Hospitals have switched from handwritten prescriptions and pills in Dixie cups to computerized order entry and robotic drug dispensing, but one thing hasn’t changed over the past two decades: the small but severe risk of injuries and deaths from medication errors. In a new report, Minnesota hospitals disclosed four deaths and 10 serious injuries related
Read MoreTroubleshooters Investigate Pharmacy Prescription Errors
By, Jill Konopka If you fill prescriptions at your local pharmacy, listen up. The NBC Connecticut Troubleshooters are looking into prescription- and pharmacy-related medical mistakes investigated by the state. Hundreds of thousands of prescription medications are filled at pharmacies all across Connecticut every week, but what happens when there is something wrong with the pills prescribed to
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