In a recent blog, our pharmacy misfill error injury attorneys in Baltimore, Maryland discussed the importance of medication therapy management (MTM) check-ups with a pharmacist, to avoid medication error, pharmacy misfill, and potentially dangerous drug mix-ups that can lead to patient injury or even wrongful death. The goal of an…
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Man Died from Overdose of Fentanyl—Widow Sues Center for Medication Error
Last year, our Baltimore medication error attorneys reported on two cases involving alleged overdoses of the powerful pain medication Fentanyl—one blog discussed a wrongful death lawsuit, where an 68-year-old died after allegedly receiving an incorrect dosage of the potent pain killer, and another blog discussed an overdose of duragesic pain…
Medication Therapy Management and the Prevention of Medication Error
According to the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), medication-related events are a massive problem to this country’s public health and well being. As our Baltimore medication error injury attorneys have reported in a related blog, according to the APhA, 1.5 million people are injured by medication errors every year, that cost…
Healthcare Center Sued for Wrongful Death After Man Dies from Pain Medication Overdose
In recent news that our Washington D.C. nursing home attorneys have been following, a medication error lawsuit has been filed against a local hospital in Salt Lake City, after a patient died from receiving an alleged overdose of a potent pain medication. According to Deseret News, Clarence Burton was admitted…
Children’s Hospital Launches Initiative to Prevent Medication Error
After two children died from medication errors at Seattle Children’s Hospital over a period of 18 months, as our Baltimore, Maryland medication error injury lawyers recently discussed in a blog, the staff of the hospital held a special ‘Zero Errors Initiative’ Patient Safety Day on Saturday, to prevent tragic medication…
Reporting Children’s Medication Errors Can Help in Prevention
A recent news article reports that medication errors are among the most common mistakes made by healthcare practitioners—and also among the most under reported. In a tragic medication error from last year, a child at Seattle Children’s Hospital died from a medication error allegedly involving Calcium chloride. The hospital reported…
Medication Error Causes Death in Washington State Hospital
In recent news, our Baltimore, Maryland medication error attorneys have been following the story of a recent tragedy, resulting in the death of a patient who went to the hospital for outpatient shoulder surgery, and died shortly after, due to a medication error. According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Gary William…
Study Reviews Risk Levels Associated with Pharmacy Drug Dispensing
As Washington D.C. pharmacy error injury lawyers, we have been following recent study results released by the company Centice, that discuss the risk levels associated with drug dispensing processes, and the occurrence of pharmacy errors or misfills. Centice is a company focused on the chemical verification of dispensed prescription drugs,…
Family Sues Hospital for Wrongful Death in Morphine Overdose
Our Hartford pharmacy error attorneys have recently been alerted about a wrongful death lawsuit announced last week involving the incorrect administration of morphine, a topic our Maryland attorneys have been reporting on in our Maryland nursing home lawyer blog. The lawsuit claims that Henry Peters Dyck entered the hospital in…
ISMP Licenses MEDcounselor Drug Information to Prevent Medication Error
According to a press release that our Baltimore pharmacy error attorneys have been following, Gold Standard/Elsevier, a drug information and medication management solution developer, has licensed MEDcounselor Drug Information modules to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) for its consumer website, ConsumerMedSafety.org. The ISMP is certified by the federal…