I-Team: Experts believe new bill will lead to more pharmacy mistakes

1,421 views · Published 31 January 2014 · 4:06 · Indexed 29 September 2026

Channel: Tampa Bay 28 · 2014 · News & Politics

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Since more than 235 million prescriptions are written in Florida each year, or one prescription a month for every man, woman and child, a 0.09 percent error rate would equate to nearly 212,000 thousand prescribing errors a year here, or more than 580 mistakes a day. The I-Team has discovered proposed state legislation could increase the workload of pharmacies by doubling the number of pharmacy techs allowed per pharmacist from three to six.

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