drug errors

Drug errors are a scary thing when you are in the medical field. Not only are there just keystroke errors in order entry, there are also errors in how a physician my write the prescription, errors on how the nurse may give the medication, and errors on the pharmacists' side. It's a wonder at all that a drug comes out 100% correct considering all the human involvement. I don't want my job going to robots... but maybe a robot would be more accurate on the stupid errors. You know, the errors that when you see them you think, "Whaaaaaaa?"

More than 1.5 million are injured yearly.

Top ten errors according to the Institute of Medicine:

1. Insulin (8%);
2. Anticoagulants (6.2%);
3. Amoxicillin (s) (4.3%);
4. Aspirin (2.5%);
5. Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (2.2%);
6. Hydrocodone/acetaminophen (2.2%);
7. Ibuprofen (2.1%);
8. Acetaminophen (1.8%);
9. Cephalexin (1.6%); and
10. Penicillin (1.3%).
    

• Inderal and Adderrall
• Zyrtec and Zantac
• Celebrex and Cerebyx

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