Healthcare/Hospital Law
Oct. 2, 2008
Errors Let Recalled Drug Reach Patients
Months after recall alerts went out, more than a dozen California hospitals continued giving tainted heparin to hundreds of patients, according to state citations obtained by the Daily Journal.
By Evan George
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Months after recall alerts went out, more than a dozen California hospitals continued giving tainted heparin to hundreds of patients and left several thousand doses of the anti-clotting drug sitting on pharmacy shelves, according to state citations obtained by the Daily Journal.
The documents allege that the University of California San Francisco Medical Center and Children's Hospital of Central Cal...
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