California legislators approved a bill to require pharmacies to report prescription errors. An estimated 5 million potentially life-threatening errors happen each year.
As many as 9,000 Americans die each year after receiving the wrong prescription drugs or doses. Pharmacies are fighting a bill to shed light on the problem.The bill, authored by Assemblymember Matt Haney, a San Francisco Democrat, would also require pharmacies to have a technician or clerk to assist the pharmacist during much of the day., a lobbying group representing retail pharmacies, including the big chains.
The chain pharmacies have said that the errors are rare and that they have measures in place to keep patients safe. The state’s Board of Pharmacy sponsored the bill. The board, which regulates pharmacies, said it does not know whether the number of prescription errors has been increasing or decreasing because pharmacies are not required to report them.The Times found the errors have included cases in which pharmacists gave customers the wrong drug, a dosage that was too high or low, or dangerously incorrect instructions for taking the medication.
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