Lessons in Error Prevention

Blogs

• 10/21/2026

  How a simple mistake turns a daily dose into a single dose

  A pharmacist catches a clindamycin prescribing error that would have given a seven-year-old three times the intended daily dose.
• 7/8/2026

  A not-so-simple swap: Patient counselling highlighted potential for error when changing multi-ingredient products

  A pharmacist avoids a potentially harmful dosing error after recognizing that different strengths of a combination drug were not directly interchangeable.
• 4/26/2026

  How to avoid dosing interval errors

  Since most medications are taken daily, doses outside that interval have a lot of error potential.