Sentence examples for pharmacy error from inspiring English sources

That was a pharmacy error.

However, while the £13m in penalties recouped losses from those who defrauded the system that year, many are being penalised for a pharmacy error or because of a misunderstanding.

In July 2008, an 89-year-old man in Missouri, USA, with a history of hypertension received a prescription for metolazone and was given methotrexate (2.5 mg orally, 3×/wk) because of a pharmacy error.

In this case, the medical profession pushed for an approved version to be marketed, rationalizing that if a seizure occurred in the context of a patient taking an FDA-approved alternative, "at least you know it wasn't because of a local compounding pharmacy error".[ 29] Another significant example has been the rapid growth of the so-called 'bioidentical postmenopausal hormone therapy' market.

An electronic system could reduce pharmacy errors that result from misreading a doctor's prescription and misplaced decimal points and warn of drug allergies and potential drug interactions in individual patients.

For example, one insurance company is partnering with a major medical school to evaluate the effectiveness of EHR in reducing pharmacy errors, one of the leading causes of medical errors, thereby improving patient safety [ 71].

We could do that but you could end up spending all the time just doing a whole lot of information so we just, as an organisation, we decide on which are the – which of the KQIs we want to do and so it's been administration and pharmacy errors".

Ward-level medication preparation and dispensing errors were included, whilst prescribing and pharmacy dispensing errors were not.

Medication errors, which can be lethal, are known to be caused by illegible handwriting, misinterpretation of orders, fatigue on the part of medical personnel, pharmacy dispensing errors and administration mistakes.

Senator Christopher Bond reported that they had "received reports of nonsterile eye drops causing blindness, spinal injections contaminated with bacteria and/or fungus, resulting in hospitalization and, in some cases, death, and children poisoned as a result of pharmacy compounding errors".

The presence of pharmacy dispensing errors and more specifically ward stock/supply problems on the MAE causal pathway highlights additional communication challenges.