Prescription Drugs Wrongly Prescribed Or Improperly Dispensed Are Preventable Adverse Events Which Need To Be Reduced In Number — And This Can Be Done (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) In a February 14, 2008 article, “1 in 10 patients gets drug error”, Boston Globe reporter Patricia Wen presented some disturbing data from a study which examined adverse events involving prescription errors that occurred in six undisclosed Massachusetts community hospitals: One in every 10 patients a

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