MedStar admits dosage error for 200+ patients
Medical personnel and advocates for patient safety in Kentucky and across the nation took notice as the MedStar Health system admitted to giving more than 200 patients in several medical facilities in Maryland and Washington, D.C. the wrong dosage of medication in 2010. The error didn’t result in any known medical complications, so it went undetected for about two months as clients received twice the correct dosage. To MedStar’s credit,