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Article: MEDICATION ERRORS INJURE 1.5 MILLION PEOPLE AND COST BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ANNUALLY
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 20, 2006
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The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill issued the following press release:
Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 million people every year, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. The extra medical costs of treating drug-related injuries occurring in hospitals alone conservatively amount to $3.5 billion a year, and this estimate does not take into account lost wages and productivity or additional health care costs, the report says.
The committee that wrote the report recommended a series of actions for patients, health care organizations, government agencies, and pharmaceutical companies. The ...