Disabling prescribing system alerts may have led to hospital paracetamol overdose

Disabling decision-support alerts on a hospital prescribing system may have contributed to a patient’s death by paracetamol overdose, NHS England has suggested. Paula Doreen Hughes, aged 55 years, died on 10 January 2022 following a medication error, which resulted in an unintended therapeutic excess of paracetamol, Liliane Field, assistant coroner for Inner South London, concluded in […]