Recent Posts in Pharmacy Medication Error Category
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Posted on Dec 16, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Medication errors can have deadly consequences. Whether the pharmacist dispensed the wrong drug or the doctor prescribed the wrong dose the side effects can be life changing, even life threatening. ...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2012 By Scott Distasio
It is fairly common knowledge that when taking multiple medications, there is a chance that the drugs react badly with each other. Doctors must take precautions when treating patients so they do not ...
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Posted on Nov 30, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Between 1996 and 2006, the number of visits to United States Emergency Rooms rose to approximately 120 million annually. This is concerning because hospital medication errors occur twice as often in ...
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Posted on Nov 26, 2012 By Scott Distasio
A recent survey done in the United Kingdom found that over 90 percent of pharmacists made an error in the last 12 months. There were approximately 750 survey participants and most admitted to making ...
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Posted on Nov 10, 2012 By Scott Distasio
A report out of Nashville, Tennessee indicates that about 150 of the patients who were exposed to the contaminated injections involved in the national fungal meningitis outbreak were given old ...
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Posted on Nov 6, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Compounding pharmacy errors, like the one that has lead to the nation's fungal meningitis outbreak, can have serious and deadly consequences. And these incidents are not uncommon. Since 1990, the ...
Continue reading "Pharmacies That Make Compounding Errors Rarely Face Harsh Consequences from Regulators" »
Posted on Oct 25, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Health officials have positively tied the nation's deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis to tainted medications produced and shipped by a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy. New England Compounding ...
Continue reading "Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Continues to Spread" »
Posted on Oct 21, 2012 By Scott Distasio
The multi-state fungal meningitis outbreak that has been linked to mistakes made in a compounding pharmacy continues to grow as new information is uncovered. The number of contaminated medication ...
Continue reading "Meningitis Outbreak Linked to MA Pharmacy Negligence Continues to Grow" »
Posted on Oct 18, 2012 By Scott Distasio
The Food and Drug Administration sent criminal investigators to the embattled New England Compounding Center on Tuesday. Health officials believe tainted pain medicine produced by the compounding ...
Continue reading "MA Compounding Facility Under Criminal Investigation for Alleged Negligence" »
Posted on Oct 17, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Distasio Law Firm 's medicine error blog has been covering the meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated medications. Monday, the FDA announced that in addition to the contaminated ...
Continue reading "Two More Drugs from Troubled Compounding Facility Linked to Meningitis Outbreak" »
Posted on Oct 15, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Christina Torres filled her son's prescription for Ritalin at Felicity Pharmacy in the Bronx, NY. She was accustomed to receiving the generic version, methylphenidate, and did not question the ...
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Posted on Oct 11, 2012 By Scott Distasio
The last blog discussed a deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to contaminated medication produced by a compounding facility in Massachusetts. The newest information in this case indicates as ...
Continue reading "More Patients Contract Meningitis Through Contaminated Medication" »
Posted on Aug 12, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Each year, in order to learn more about professional responsibility, first year pharmacy students at Auburn University attend a mock trial as part of their orientation. The trials are based on actual ...
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Posted on Aug 4, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Earlier this year, Gregory Klonowski was indicted in an Orlando federal court on more than a dozen charges, including aggravated identity theft. He pleaded guilty to three of them Tuesday. An Arizona ...
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Posted on Jul 31, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Medication errors are a real problem and have been for years. iHealthBeat reports that the 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) study helped focus national attention on the issue. In that study, the IOM ...
Continue reading "Is Relying on Technology the Best Way to Reduce Medication Errors?" »
Posted on Jul 23, 2012 By Scott Distasio
In an effort to reduce the rate of hospital medication errors, Saline Memorial Hospital in Benton, Arkansas has employed the use of a new system by Meta Healthcare IT Solutions. The MetaCare eMAR ...
Continue reading "Hospital Implements Barcode System in an Effort to Reduce Medication Errors" »
Posted on Jul 7, 2012 By Scott Distasio
In many hospitals across the country, patients who are about to be discharged meet with a hospital pharmacist. These meetings are designed to reduce the rate of medication errors that occur once a ...
Continue reading "Pharmacist Intervention Does Not Reduce Medication Errors in Heart Patients After Hospitalization" »
Posted on Jul 3, 2012 By Scott Distasio
The internet has revolutionized life as we know it. With a click of the mouse, you can bring up the local news of the day, listen to the latest music, read a new book, or do hundreds of other ...
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Posted on Jun 29, 2012 By Scott Distasio
The first article in this series discussed drug errors that can occur when two medications have similar names. Whether the names sound close to one another or have similar spellings, this kind of ...
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Posted on Jun 17, 2012 By Scott Distasio
The most common medication errors in hospitals are insulin errors. Nursing Times reports a study in England's hospitals revealed 37 percent of diabetic patients were given the wrong dose of ...
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Posted on Jun 8, 2012 By Scott Distasio
The number of people who are made sick each year by medication errors is staggering. There is no mandatory reporting system in place for incidents when a doctor prescribed the wrong drug or a ...
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Posted on May 31, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Medication errors are preventable, but happen far too often. Over 1.5 million people suffer from the effects of a medication mistake each year. Ten medicine mistakes happen more often than others and ...
Continue reading "Top 10 Medication Errors - Taking Multiple Drugs that Interact With Each Other" »
Posted on May 27, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Medication mistakes are more common than most people realize. While some who are given the wrong medicine do not suffer severe complications, over 1.5 million Americans get sick from taking the wrong ...
Continue reading "Top 10 Medication Errors - Confusing Two Different Medications with Similar Names" »
Posted on May 15, 2012 By Scott Distasio
In 2007, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report indicating at least 1.5 million people each year are the victims of some kind of medication error. According to CNN, a separate study from ...
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Posted on May 10, 2012 By Scott Distasio
Every day, patients around the developed world put their trust in pharmacists. These men and women have gone through years of schooling and training and know more about medications we take than we do. ...
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