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What are the number of deaths in India due to errors in reading hand-written prescriptions?


Q: Is there any data on how many deaths or serious health problem occurs in India every year due to errors in reading hand-written prescriptions?

A:There was very little information retrieved from the Net. Here are some links which can be looked up: http://medind.nic.in/maa/t04/i2/maat04i2p172.pdf (this is from our database,medIND..a full-text database of peer reviewed Indian biomedical journals).http://members.rediff.com/drkhosla/News/news31.htmlhttp://www.expresshealthcaremgmt.com/20040915/management01.shtml