medication error
Drug administration blunder
A medication error is any preventable mistake in prescribing, dispensing, or administering a drug—wrong dose, wrong patient, wrong medication, or wrong time.
The term covers the full chain from doctor's order to patient's bedside: The nurse caught the medication error before the patient received the contraindicated drug.
Healthcare systems track medication errors to improve safety protocols.
- prescriptionMedical dispensing authorization
- wrong doseIncorrect medication amount
- overdoseHarmful excess intake
- drug interactionSubstances altering each other's effects
- dosageMeasured medicine amount
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