Australia: Chemotherapy overdose prompts audit of medical equipment
Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, December 9, 2008
After a four-year period in which 11 children were overdosed with a chemotherapy drug, the South Australian government has issued an audit of all medical equipment used for cancer patients in all hospitals, reports the Australian.
The overdose was traced back to a computer program. Staff members were raising the dosage, not realizing the computer was already doing the same automatically, according to the Australian. Patients received between nine and 17% more than the recommended amount of chemotherapy.
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