prescription error
Wrong dosage dispensed
A prescription error is a mistake in the medication process—wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong patient, or wrong instructions.
Errors can occur when a doctor writes the prescription, a pharmacist fills it, or a patient takes it: The pharmacy's prescription error sent him to the emergency room.
Such errors are a major cause of preventable medical harm.
- medicationTherapeutic substance for illness
- wrong doseIncorrect medication amount
- dosageMeasured medicine amount
- pharmacyMedicinal dispensary
- overdoseHarmful excess intake
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- medication errorswrong dose, wrong route, wrong time, overdose, underdose
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