New Study Offers Hope for Prescription Errors
Patients in Atlanta hospitals can be given any number of drug combinations to deal with multiple issues. Some medications, safe and effective alone, can have dangerous consequences as drug combinations. Also, an important area of Medical Malpractice is plain pharmacy error. Sometimes pharmacists put the wrong pills in the bottle. This can also have disastrous consequences.
News RX reports that a study released in the Critical Care Medicine Journal has found including an on-ward pharmacist on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) team significantly reduced prescription error and related patient harms. The study was instituted by J.E. Klopotowska of the University of New Amsterdam.
When hospital staff fail to care for patients appropriately, illness and injuries can get worse instead of better. When a pharmacist messes up your prescription, you have no way to know or protect yourself from reactions to the wrong drug.
Robert J. Fleming is an experienced Atlanta Injury lawyer who has handled many cases involving medical malpractice and pharmacy error. Please call us if you need to talk to an attorney about a bad hospital experience.
Source: New Critical Care Medicine Data Have Been Reported by Scientists at University of Amsterdam, Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week via NewsRx.com, 2011
