Approximately Half Of All Surgeries May Involve Some Type Of Medication Error Or Unintended Drug Side Effects, Research Suggests.

reports that approximately “half of all surgeries involve some kind of medication error or unintended drug side effects, if” research performed “at one of America’s most prestigious academic medical centers is any indication.” This “rate, calculated by researchers from the anesthesiology department at Massachusetts General Hospital who observed 277 procedures there, is startlingly high compared with those in the few earlier studies.” The findings were published in Anesthesiology. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-25/health-medication-errors-happen-in-half-of-all-surgeries