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Medication Errors Run Amok
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The spectrum of medication errors by healthcare professionals is so wide and deep that it seems to be designed into the delivery system. You have to reach the conclusion that nobody gives a damn after reading the results of this study at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, presumably a well-staffed facility adhering to the gold standard of care. I cannot imagine the magnitude of the problem at facilities which are only meeting the silver or bronze standards.
Drug Injury Watch brought the study to my attention.
Drug Errors Occur At All Points In Medication Process
In June 2006 the medical journal Quality & Safety in Healthcare published an article, "Computer based medication error reporting: insights and implications", that demonstrated drug errors can and do occur at all points in the medication process.Medical researchers, led by Marlene Miller and Christoph Lehmann, analyzed 19 months of data from a voluntary medication error reporting system in use at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center from 2001 to 2004.
As regards where the drug error occurred during the medication process, they found:
30% were prescribing errors;
24% were dispensing errors;
41% were administration errors; and,
6% were documentation errors.Analyzing their data by drug type, the researchers observed:
17% of the errors occurred with antibiotics or anti-virals;
15% with pain relievers and sedatives;
11% with nutritional supplements;
8% with gastrointestinal medications; and,
7% with cardiovascular medications.
At least the medical grief is being equally spread among the patient population by the miscreants.
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Comments
My issue is Zyprexa which is only FDA approved for schizophrenia (.5-1% of pop) and some bipolar (2% pop) and then an even smaller percentage of theses two groups.
So how does Zyprexa get to be the 7th largest drug sale in the world?
Eli Lilly is in deep trouble for using their drug reps to 'encourage' doctors to write zyprexa for non-FDA approved 'off label' uses.
The drug causes increased diabetes risk,and medicare picks up all the expensive fallout.There are now 7 states (and counting) going after Lilly for fraud and restitution.
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Daniel Haszard
Posted by: Daniel Haszard at November 11, 2006 11:06 AM
More or less nothing seems important. So it goes. Oh well. It's not important. That's how it is.
Posted by: all-roses at September 8, 2007 10:56 AM