The Pew Charitable Trusts has identified over 20 pharmacy compounding errors associated with 1,084 adverse events, including 87 deaths, since 2001.
Contamination of sterile products was the most common compounding error, though others were the result of pharmacists' and technicians' miscalculations and mistakes in filling prescriptions.
This chart was updated on September 5, 2013
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1 comment:
The chart is good, but would have been more useful if it included animal compounding errors (such as the polo pones that died from injections). In addition, some pharmacies (such as NECC and ApotheCure/NuVision have been associated with numerous adverse reactions/deaths (but they settle with the families with "confidential settlements", so they are hushed up).
Kenneth Woliner, MD
www.holisticfamilymed.com
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