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Nursing home resident dies when given 5x prescribed medication dose

September 2, 2016 by

…A 76-year-old woman in poor health was a resident of a local nursing home. She was mistakenly given five times the prescribed dose of morphine, causing her to die within two hours from breathing failure. The nursing home settled out of court.

 

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