Liability of a Nursing Home Pharmacist Not Told of Drug Change.

The article discusses a court case which determined the liability of the pharmacist and the pharmacy who were not told of a prescription change for a patient, resulting in a transcription error that led to the patient's death. The case has been dismissed for lack of evidence that the defendants had a duty or ability to control the nurse who made the error or had a duty to detect the transcription error the nurse had made.