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Medication Errors

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Did you receive the wrong medication due to a prescription error? Our attorneys can help.

Few people are aware of how common it is for patients in the United States to be the victim of a medication error.

The American Hospital Association lists the following as some common types of medication errors:

  • incomplete patient information (not knowing about patients' allergies, other medicines they are taking, previous diagnoses, and lab results, for example);
  • unavailable drug information (such as lack of up-to-date warnings);
  • miscommunication of drug orders, which can involve poor handwriting, confusion between drugs with similar names, misuse of zeroes and decimal points, confusion of metric and other dosing units, and inappropriate abbreviations; lack of appropriate labeling as a drug is prepared and repackaged into smaller units;
  • and environmental factors, such as lighting, heat, noise, and interruptions, that can distract health professionals from their medical tasks.

    Such situations can result in serious injury to the patient. Sadly, our medical malpractice attorneys are all too familiar with situations in which a medication error causes serious harm.

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