More interesting medical info from my reading...

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Now I am reading an article on medical drug mistakes in Canada. " Elderly

get wrong drugs: Poor communication to blame for errors, McGill study

concludes " The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec), September 16, 2003

I found some interesting statistics in here.

" At least one in three Montreal-area seniors has been improperly prescribed

medication by a general practitioner, a new study has found. "

" The researchers reviewed the prescriptions for 12,560 Montreal seniors in

1997, and discovered that more than 30 per cent had at least one

" inappropriate " prescription. "

" Medication errors are a growing problem across North America and believed

to be the sixth leading cause of death. Up to 10 per cent of the elderly end

up in the hospital because of bad prescriptions, Tamblyn said. "

-Barb