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Catalogue Number: CTV120
Producer: CTV
Subject: Health and Medicine
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2001
Running Time: 20
Hidden Epidemic: W5
Catalogue Number: CTV120
Producer: CTV
Subject: Health and Medicine
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 2001
Running Time: 20
Most people believe that hospitals have systems in place to prevent medication errors and ensure patient safety. W5 reveals that medication errors in hospitals resulting in death are commonplace, and what is worse, the same errors are being repeated across the country and in Europe. Parents speak about the death of their children due to incorrect administration of the drug Vincristine, but these deaths are just the tip of the iceberg.
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