Source: Colorcon By Jay Anbil and Steve Yoder Medical prescription drug errors by doctors, pharmacists and patients account for 1.5 million incidences of sickness, injuries or deaths in the U.S. each year. Thirty percent of these unnecessary adverse events are attributed to human errors in identifying drugs and dosages. In fact, more people die from …
The FDA’s first priority is patient safety. The FDA has been working for several years to reduce the risk of patient infections associated with reusable endoscopes — small, flexible lighted tubes that allow doctors to see inside patients and treat certain medical conditions in a less invasive manner than traditional surgery. The devices, which include …
The $200 million fund created to compensate victims of the 2012 meningitis outbreak tied to tainted drugs from the New England Compounding Center is an extreme example of how expensive compounding errors can be. But compounding errors don’t have to cause multistate disease outbreaks in order to be costly. A single error can cost …
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Human Factors in Sterile Compounding Involving a Hospital Pharmacy In the April issue of JAMA Internal Medicine published last year¹, an outbreak of bacteremia due to Burholderia contaminans (BCC) was linked to intravenous fentanyl produced by the compounding pharmacy at Duke University Hospital. The blood cultures of 7 patients during a 7 day period were …
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