Medication errors, adverse drug events in one out of two surgeries studied

Monday, October 26, 2015 - 13:30 in Health & Medicine

The first study to measure the incidence of medication errors and adverse drug events during the perioperative period -- immediately before, during and right after a surgical procedure -- has found that some sort of mistake or adverse event occurred in every second operation and in 5 percent of observed drug administrations.

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