Ohio Approves Law to Minimize Pharmacy Errors
Ohio lawmakers have given final approval for a law that would require pharmacy technicians to meet minimum safety standards in an effort to minimize pharmacy errors. Prompting the legislation was a 2-year-old girl who was undergoing treatment for a tumor who died as a result of a pharmacy mix up at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland. At the time of her death the pharmacy technician responsible for filling her prescription mixed a chemotherapy drug with a saline solution that contained 26 times more salt than normal.
