Thus, had the drug actually been given, 70percentt would have been given the wrong dose.
Or Betsy Lehman, a Boston Globe health reporter who died in 1994 after receiving the wrong dose of chemotherapy.
Many are shoddily made, containing the wrong dose of the active ingredient.
Patients taking the wrong dose or mixing medicines that react badly often end up back in the hospital.
"Aristolochic acid is seriously toxic, it has killed people who have taken the wrong dose," Dr. Bunce said.
An exhausted intern writes the wrong dose of a drug, but an alert pharmacist or nurse catches the mistake.
Health care providers may prescribe the wrong treatment, the wrong dose or the wrong length of time for taking the drugs.
Internists who routinely treat adults, Dr. Markenson said, "are often afraid of taking care of children" for fear of giving them the wrong dose or simply of failing.
Most parents unwittingly give their kids the wrong dose of liquid medication — in some cases more than twice as much as instructed, a new study shows.
The wrong dose: One time, just after I became a pharmacist, instead of giving a patient 10 milligrams of Crestor, I dispensed 20 milligrams.
Research in the US found that the average system harms 10% of patients, "with drug errors, the wrong dose, missing a dose, not giving them nutrition, that sort of thing", and the NHS is no different.
