Medication Errors

People in New Mexico who are prescribed medication need to bear in mind that serious consequences can occur if there is a mistake made by the doctor or pharmacist. To avoid this, there are important questions that patients need to have answered prior to taking their...

As more electronic health record platforms and health IT systems have been implemented, physicians have received more and more alert notifications. This has resulted in health care providers ignoring some alerts, which has had a negative impact on patient safety....

Some New Mexico residents may be aware that the overuse of antibiotics has potentially lead to a person's resistance to the drug. However, a recent report indicates that part of the reason some antibiotics may be overused is due to a misdiagnosis by a medical...

Patients entering hospitals in New Mexico might benefit from the rising use of computerized physician order entry systems designed to reduce medication errors. A report from the Leapfrog Group that assesses medication software found that 1,339 hospitals had added the...

Residents in New Mexico may be interested in learning how one teenage boy received a dangerous overdose from medical staff after he was admitted to the hospital. The incident occurred at a California children's hospital on July 27, 2013. The patient was initially...

Many Arizona residents fall victim to prescription errors each year. You may have visited a clinic or emergency room with the expectation that doctors, nurses and other staff will pay careful attention to your prescription needs only to suffer serious side effects...

General anesthesia is an important component to many surgical procedures, because it allows the patient to remain unconscious and pain-free during surgery. It is usually administered by an anesthesiologist, who is a physician whose practice is devoted to anesthesia...

Medication mistakes can happen at any stage of the health care process. New Mexico physicians might prescribe too much of a medication. Nurses in hospitals or long-term care facilities might give a patient the wrong drug or an incorrect dosage. Pharmacists sometimes...

People in New Mexico who are taking prescription medications can do many things to prevent dangerous drug combinations, allergic reactions and dosage mistakes. However, individual patients are not the only parties involved. Errors can be introduced at many points,...

New Mexico residents may not be aware about how common children's medication errors are in the United States. According to a recent study, while 94 percent of the reported errors didn't lead to the child needing medical attention, the mistakes caused 25 deaths and...