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Medical errors that involve handwritten prescriptions

“Two people in the United States just died in the last hour. Seventeen more will die in the next 7 to 8 hours. Over a year, that number will accumulate to about 7,000.
The reason? Medical errors that include misread or otherwise misinterpreted handwritten prescriptions. Believe it. This means that doctors are being sloppy, pharmacies are making mistakes and people are getting dead.”

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Daphne Swancutt, KevinMD, 14 December 2010

14 December 2010 | Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): e-prescribing, health-literacy, Medical Errors
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