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FDA Moves to Curb Accidental Overdoses
Nov 5th, 2009 - CBS News
The Food and Drug Administration is launching a program to try and prevent millions of accidental drug overdoses that occur each year due to medication errors, misuse and other problems. Under the plan announced Wednesday...
FDA launches program to prevent errors in medication use
Nov 4th, 2009 - CNN
Washington (CNN) -- The Food and Drug Administration launched an effort Wednesday to reduce needless injuries resulting from preventable medication errors. "Too many people suffer unnecessary injuries from avoidable medication misuse...
FDA Initiative Seeks to Reduce Accidental Overdoses
Nov 4th, 2009 - US News
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 4 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health authorities unveiled Wednesday an initiative designed to reduce preventable injuries and deaths caused by misuse of medications.
FDA launches plan to curb accidental overdoses
Nov 4th, 2009 - ABC 7 News
Washington - The Food and Drug Administration is launching a program to try and prevent millions of accidental drug overdoses that occur each year due to medication errors...

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Avoiding Medication Errors with Multiple Brand Names
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) recently highlighted medication errors that can occur when a drug is marketed under more than one brand name, especially when one of those names is well established. ISMP describes ...

Medication Errors from WikiPedia:

Medical error is an inaccurate or incomplete diagnosis and/or treatment of a disease; injury; syndrome; behavior; infection or other ailment.

In the U.S., medical errors are estimated to result in 44,000 to 98,000 unnecessary deaths and 1,000,000 excess injuries each year. One older extrapolation suggests '180,000 people die each year partly as a result of iatrogenic injury, the equivalent of three jumbo-jet crashes every 2 days'. It is estimated that in a typical 100 to 300 bed hospital in the United States, excess costs of $1,000,000 to $3,000,000 attributable to prolonged stays and complications just due to medication errors occur yearly.

However, medical error definitions are subject to debate, as there are many types of medical error from minor to major, and causality is often poorly determined. The Health Grades study statistics, based on AHRQ MedPAR data, were based on administrative records, not clinical records, and largely overlooked multi-causality of outcomes.