What are the most common pharmacy errors that result in injury?

A: The most common errors are:

• mislabeling drugs with improper directions for their use;
  
• not counseling patients about side effects;
  
• not performing DUR- Drug Utilization Review- cross checking for side effects;
• contraindications and other alerts that pop up in the pharmacy computer system;
• transcription errors, where a decimal point is put in the wrong place or is omitted in the dosage instructions;
• giving a patient someone else's medication in their bottle; and
• putting the wrong drug in the bottle--switching bottles of two medications with different directions for
• use for one patient, or putting Risperdal in a Ritalin bottle, for example.