Report Finds Patients Suffer Heavy Toll From Medication Errors
A just-released report from the nation's premier medical advisory organization documents that patients have a one-in-ten chance of a filling error in prescriptions filled in hospitals. These errors harm 1.5 million people and kill several thousand each year in the United States, costing the nation at least $3.5 billion annually, according to the Institute of Medicine. Drug errors are so widespread that hospital patients should expect to suffer one every day they remain hospitalized.
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