Friday, February 29, 2008

1 in 10 patients gets drug error

This article is talking about one in every 10 patients suffered from medication mistakes, and the reason is that many hospitals still don't have computerized prescription ordering system. There was a study of preventable prescription errors done on some Massachusetts hospitals, and it showed that the hospitals which lack computerized systems found such medication errors.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/02/14/1_in_10_patients_gets_drug_error/

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