Caregiver error
People who care for elderly people still living at home are prone to make mistakes with medication, suggests a study in an upcoming issue of the
Journal of General Internal Medicine
. When tested, more than half of 98 caregivers who had volunteered for the study showed difficulty understanding prescription labels, leading to errors in assigning proper amounts of medications to daily pillboxes, researchers from Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago report.
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