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The process required the anesthesiologist to scan every drug ampoule and syringe label for accuracy verification during drug dispensing, premixing, administration and documentation. Two weeks after ...
Pennsylvania hospitals submitted 519 medication error reports to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority from June 2004-September 2010. The most common types of ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Potentially harmful medication administration errors are very rare in assisted living settings, the result of a study of 12 facilities in three states suggests. Assisted ...
Every year, up to 9,000 people die in the US as a result of a prescription medication error. That figure doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands of patients who ...
Clonazepam pill bottle pictured in this stock image. automation Additional packages of clonazepam, a prescription medication used to treat seizures and anxiety, mislabeled with the incorrect strength ...
The Hy-Vee Pharmacy at 410 N. Ankeny Blvd. in Ankeny, Iowa. (Photo via Google Earth) An Ankeny pharmacy has been fined $1,000 for dispensing the wrong medication to a customer and then failing to ...
In August, a nurse at Main Line Health’s Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, Pa., mistakenly gave a patient double the prescribed dose of a powerful painkiller. The incident led to state regulators ...
A former Tennessee nurse who was convicted of homicide last year after a medication error killed a patient said that the state Board of Nursing acted improperly when ...
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- The Harris County District Attorney's Office has thrown out a drug case after an employee discarded crucial evidence. David Bellamy, 40, was arrested in June 2015 on drug charges.
A premature baby was administered 10 times the prescribed amount of morphine by staff at Epworth Geelong and had to be given ...
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