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March 17, 2010
Similar Medication Names, Bottles Cause Thousands Of Mistakes Annually.
ABC World News (3/5, story 6, 2:55, Sawyer) reported on how some medicine bottles look alike and how the FDA "said it gets thousands of reports of such mix-ups every year."
The FDA's Dr. Gerald Pan said, "Today's near-miss, today's medication error that doesn't cause harm to somebody could cause harm to someone tomorrow." ABC noted the name change for Kapidex (dexlansoprazole) last week, but "that still leaves several hundred sound-alike and lookalike drug combinations to go."
Posted by admin at March 17, 2010 08:03 PM