Rate Of Serious Medication Errors Made By Patients Has Doubled Since 2000,

reports that “since 2000,” the “rate of serious” medication errors made by patients “has doubled,” researchers found after using the “US National Poison Data System records to track errors involving prescription or over-the-counter medications taken outside a health care facility.” Notably, “four out of 10 mistakes involve heart medications,” analgesics, “or hormone therapy prescriptions, including insulin,” and many resulted in the hospitalization of patients. The findings were published online in Clinical Toxicology. https://consumer.healthday.com/general-health-information-16/medical-errors-983/medication-mistakes-have-doubled-in-u-s-since-2000-study-724409.html