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Harmed by a Medication or Dosing Error?

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If you (or a loved one) were harmed by a medication error, dosing error, pharmacy mix up, or other negligence of a doctor, nurse, pharmacist or other hospital or healthcare worker — Boston's Top Medical Malpractice Lawyers may be able to help you...

... In Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

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A "medication error" refers to an error (of commission or omission) at any step along the chain of events that begins when a healthcare clinician prescribes a medication and ends when a patient receives the medication.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Patient Safety Primer on Medication Errors*, those steps are:

1. Ordering: the clinician must select the appropriate medication and the dose and frequency at which it is to be administered.

2. Transcribing: in a paper-based system, an intermediary (a clerk in the hospital setting, or a pharmacist or pharmacy technician in the outpatient setting) must read and interpret the prescription correctly.

3. Dispensing: the pharmacist must check for drug–drug interactions and allergies, then release the appropriate quantity of the medication in the correct form.

4. Administration: the correct medication must be supplied to the correct patient at the correct time. In the hospital, this is generally a nurse's responsibility, but in ambulatory care this is the responsibility of patients or caregivers.

Common Medication Errors

Some of the most common errors involve:

• improper dosing, which according to an FDA study*, accounts for 41% of fatal medication errors
• administering the wrong drug
• improper administration

Persons over the age of 60 may be at greater risk for fatal medication errors.

Common Hospital Drug Errors

In the acute care hospital setting some of the most common medication errors involve drugs such as:

• Insulin
• Morphine
• Potassium chloride
• Albuterol
• Heparin
• Vancomycin
• Cefazolin
• Acetaminophen
• Warfarin
• Furosemide
• among others.

Filing a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

If you believe there was a mistake made in the prescribing, transcribing, dosing or administration of a drug that caused you or a loved one lasting injury or death, please contact our law firm to have your case reviewed at no charge. Circumstances that could lead to a potential claim may include (but are not limited to):

• Failure to monitor patient on a drug (e.g. Coumadin, Warfarin)
• Dosing error that caused permanent injury or death
• Wrong medication was administered
• Medication was improperly compounded, contaminated
• Medication mix-up involving double dosing
• Other

Contact Our Medication Error Lawyers

If you believe that a medication error involved negligence by a healthcare professional or pharmacy / prescription system, our medical malpractice attorneys are experienced in medication error lawsuits and can properly evaluate your case free of charge.

We have represented individuals and families in cases involving some of the top hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

If you have questions, please call us to discuss the specifics our your case at (800) 866-2889.

Below are several examples of medication error lawsuits by Lubin & Meyer.

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