Human Errors May Explain a False Epide Prescription Pain Medication Overdose Deaths

Prescription Drug Labeling Medication Errors: A Big Deal for Pharmacists

Today, in the health care profession, all types of medication errors including missed dose, wrong dosage forms, wrong time interval, wrong route, etc., are a big deal for better patient care. Today, problems related to medications are common in the healthcare profession, and are responsible for significant morbidity, mortality, and cost. Several recent studies have demonstrated that patients fr...

When Pain Management Leads to Medication Errors

Pain has been described as “the fifth vital sign” since the late 1990s.1 Unlike the traditional vital signs of temperature, pulse, blood pressure, and respiratory rate, pain is not a sign per se but rather a symptom; as such, it is entirely subjective.2 When clinicians make treatment decisions for patients, objective signs can be reliably monitored, they are typically reproducible, and the effe...

Medication errors: the human factor.

US drug overdose deaths: a global challenge.

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Preventing deaths from methotrexate overdose.

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