A medication error is defined as “… any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm, while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer.”

Such events may be related to professional practice, health care products, procedures, and systems including: prescribing; order communication; product labeling, packaging and nomenclature; compounding; dispensing; distribution; administration; education; monitoring; and use.

Common types of medication error cases that have been successfully handled by the Ziff Law Firm include:

• Giving a patient the wrong medication.
• Giving a patient an incorrect dosage of a medication.
• Giving a patient a medication that conflicts with another medication the patient is taking.
• Mislabeling a patient’s medication.