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Hospitalized patients get drug mistakes once a day

7,000 a year. Even the total injury estimate is conservative, Bootman stressed. It includes drug errors in hospitals, nursing homes and among Medicare outpatients, but it doesn't attempt to count mix-ups in most doctors' offices or by patients themselves.

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:44:00 GMT
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