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Thursday, January 06, 2005
First thing we do is blame the lawyers for the Gregorian calendar
According to the David Phillips at UCSD:
In the first few days of each month, fatalities due to medication errors rise by as much as 25 percent above normal, according to new research by University of California, San Diego sociologist David Phillips.
If the dead federal assistance recipients would spend their money on lobbying rather than (purportedly) life-sustaining medications, I'm sure they could get President Bush to stump the country on their behalf. Until then, try to make those prescriptions last until the 3rd.
Published in the January issue of Pharmacotherapy, the journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, the study is the first to document a beginning-of-the-month spike in deaths attributed to mistakes in prescription drugs.
The primary suspect, Phillips says, is a beginning-of-the-month increase in pharmacy workloads and a consequent increase in their error rates.
