Are doctors and nurses stealing hospital meds for own use?
Australian study finds 19% of drugs go missing every year, likely taken for self-treatment, leading to a suggestion that cameras should be set up in medication rooms
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Up to one fifth of medications supplied to Australian public hospitals go missing, with many of the unaccounted drugs used for self-treatment and possibly stolen, a study shows.
Oral antibiotics, anti-nausea medications, benzodiazepines and analgesics disappear from the system at the highest rate, the authors say.