New York residents may be surprised to learn how common medical misdiagnoses can be. In 2014, a study found that about 28 percent of information given to patients is incorrect. With certain types of cancers, those numbers skyrocket. A 2013 study found that as many as 75 percent of results for mammograms and more than 70 percent of lung cancer scans were incorrect in some way.
As New York residents may know, pharmacists fill many prescriptions daily as well as performing other duties such as talking to individuals to instruct them on their medications. A recent study shows that pharmacists who fill too many prescriptions in a day have a greater risk of making mistakes. Pharmacists from two Texas hospitals authored the study that appeared in a pharmacy magazine, and included medication orders for over 1.9 million patients that were filled by 50 pharmacists. The study was over a period of one year and showed 92 prescription errors during the time the orders were verified. Out of every 100,000 verified orders, slightly less than five errors were found.
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and men in New York and around the country are being encouraged to undergo prostate cancer screenings. Screenings are particularly important for men between the ages of 40 and 75.
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