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Explains medication use and dosage properly to help prevent medication errors.
Posted On: 01 March, 2010
March 2010
An Excellent Physician is part of the solution
and not part of the problem.
- Medication errors are estimated to account for at least 7,000 deaths in the United States alone every year.
- Over 770,000 patients are estimated to be
injured because of medication errors every year.
- One 5-year study showed that the most common
types of medication errors were a wrong dose,
a wrong drug or a wrong route of administration.
- Medication errors occur in nearly 1 out of every 5
doses given to patients in the typical hospital.
- Adverse medication events have been reported and are estimated to occur at a rate of around 5% for dmissions and discharges from the typical hospital.
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