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Report finds drug errors hurt 1.5 million

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Report finds drug errors hurt 1.5 million

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preventable drug error can add more than $5,800 to the hospital bill of a single patient. Assuming that hospitals commit 400,000 preventable drug errors each year, that's $3.5 billion - not counting lost productivity and other costs - from hospitals

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