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FDA Changes Labels on Anti-Bacterial Drug Due to Potential for Easy Mix-Up
Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a warning regarding the confusing packaging on the intravenous antibacterial drug Avycaz. According to one industry news source, the...
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Pharmacist Mistakenly Provides Chemotherapy Drug to Elderly Patient and Then...
Earlier this month in New Zealand, a pharmacist was reprimanded by the governing professional board after it was discovered that he made an error in providing a patient with the wrong medication and...
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Pharmacists’ Performance Evaluation Metric Acts Like a “Quota System” to...
Pharmacies, like other businesses, are operated for profit, and labor is one of the main expenses for a pharmacy. Therefore, a pharmacy that hopes to remain profitable will likely try and provide only...
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Woman’s Depression Worsens after Being Provided the Wrong Medication
Earlier this month in New Zealand, a woman who was traveling throughout the country suffered worsening depression and potentially other long-term side effects after a pharmacist provided her with the...
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Statutes of Limitations in Pharmacy Error Cases
Almost all personal injury cases must be brought within a certain amount of time. The laws that set forth the specific amount of time in each type of case are called statutes of limitations. A...
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Pharmacists’ Reactions to Reported Medication Errors
Mistakes happen. Despite the best efforts of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, sometimes an error will occur, and a patient will be provided with the wrong medication, or provided with the right...
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What to Do if the Pharmacist Gives You the Wrong Medication
Ideally, pharmacists would always provide their patients with the correct medication and dosing instructions. However, that is not the reality we live in. It seems as though each week several new...
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Customer Service at Specialty Pharmacies May Be an Issue for Some Patients
As business practices across the board evolve, so does the pharmacy industry. And with brick-and-mortar pharmacies requiring high month-to-month operating costs, mail-order pharmacies are becoming more...
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Fatal Pharmacy Errors and the Parties Responsible for Preventing Them
Pharmacy errors are an unfortunately common phenomenon across the United States. Most often, these errors stem from a single problem: a lack of oversight. Often, serious pharmacy errors occur due to a...
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Recent Study Links Medication Errors to Sound-Alike Drug Names
It should come as no surprise that pharmacists are busy professionals. Often filling thousands of prescriptions a week for hundreds of clients, keeping everything straight can be a difficult task....
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Name Mix-Ups Are One of the Most Common Types of Pharmacy Errors
Pharmacists are human, and like all other humans they are susceptible to making mistakes. The range of pharmacy errors is vast, from incorrect medications to improper dosing instructions, but the...
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Medical Mistakes Are the Third-Leading Cause of Death; Many Involve Pharmacy...
Many people are unaware, but medical mistakes are the third-leading cause of death in the United States, causing roughly 365,000 deaths per year. The category of medical mistakes is a broad category,...
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Prescription Errors Can Have Devastating Consequences
Prescription errors are common and can occur in a variety of circumstances. They can be made by a doctor prescribing a medication or by a pharmacist filling a prescription. They can be made by...
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Victims of Dangerous Pharmacy Mistakes Shouldn’t Feel Guilty about Filing a...
It is common for the victims of prescription mistakes and other potentially dangerous medical errors to feel sympathy for medical professionals who made a mistake that could form the basis for a...
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Grandmother’s Death Resulting from Pharmacist’s Error Highlights Dangers of...
While doctors prescribe medication to patients, they have to rely on pharmacists to fill the prescriptions correctly, and when pharmacists are overworked, errors increase—putting patients at greater...
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New Study Shows that Many Pharmacies Fail to Detect Clearly Dangerous Drug...
A recently published news report details an extensive study that was performed by the Chicago Tribune last year to evaluate and compare pharmacies’ ability to detect dangerous drug combinations being...
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Most Common Pharmacy Error of 2016 Was a Pharmacist’s Dispensing of the...
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has released a report that discusses the most common pharmacy errors of 2016 and strategies to prevent these errors from harming patients in the...
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Pharmacy Error Lawsuit Dismissed Because Plaintiff Names Wrong Defendant
The Supreme Court of Alabama recently released an opinion granting the appellant’s request for the state’s high court to intervene in the case and compel the trial judge to dismiss the plaintiff’s...
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Registered Nurses Too Often Fail as a Last Line of Defense Against Medication...
The results of a recently published study emphasize the crucial role that registered nurses (RNs) play in maintaining accuracy in dispensing medications to patients receiving inpatient services at a...
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Despite the High Prevalence of Pharmacy Errors, Pharmacists Resist Lawmakers’...
By any account, pharmacists do not have an easy job. They often fill hundreds of prescriptions per shift, meet with dozens of clients for consultations, and must also maintain their internal inventory...
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