Study: Medicine mix-ups hurt 1 in 15 hospitalized kids
Medicine mix-ups, accidental overdoses and bad drug reactions harm roughly one out of 15 hospitalized children, according to the first scientific test of a new detection method.
That number is far higher than earlier estimates and bolsters concerns already heightened by well publicized cases like the accidental drug overdose of actor Dennis Quaid’s newborn twins last November. Please click here to read the entire Associated Press story.
