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Odds of Intensive Care Medication Errors Are Over One Hundred Percent

4/16/2008 - A report produced by PubMed Central states that 1.7 errors per day are experienced by patients in intensive care units (ICU). At least one life-threatening error occurs at some point during virtually every ICU stay. 78% of the serious medical errors are in medications. 1.7 errors per day times 78%...

Medication errors affect children's leukemia treatment (press release)

10/10/2006 - Almost one in five children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) does not receive the appropriate chemotherapy regimen due to medication errors, according to a new study. Published in the September 15, 2006 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study...

Medication Errors Injure 1.5 Million People and Cost Billions of Dollars Annually (press release)

9/25/2006 - Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 million people every year, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. The extra medical costs of treating drug-related injuries occurring in hospitals alone conservatively amount to $3.5...

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