The Wrong Patient incident type is a subset of dispensing incidents that continue to be highly reported to PDL. This almost entirely preventable error occurs primarily in community pharmacies; however, similar errors are also reported from hospital settings.
The potential risk for patients taking an unintended medicine is significant, especially when involving a high-risk medicine such as an opioid or narrow therapeutic index drug. Given these errors can be easily prevented through relatively simple actions, PDL has initiated a project to raise awareness and address this incident type.
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