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FDA packaging guidance gets bad 'wrap' (sidebar)

Safer institutional drug packaging?

Drug packaging has never been a political hot potato. But there may be some mashing in store on Capitol Hill as Democrats and Republicans dig into a fertile new healthcare issue: medication errors.

The issue budded late last year when a 20-member committee appointed by the National Academy of Sciences issued a report on medical errors. The report contained the inflammatory estimate that between 44ꯠ and 98ꯠ people died unnecessarily each year in U.S. hospitals because of medical errors that could have been prevented. A high proportion of those deaths involved patients receiving the incorrect drug or dosage.

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