A patient who was hospitalized in the intensive care unit fo…
A patient who was hospitalized in the intensive care unit for rectal bleeding was scheduled to have a colonoscopy the following day. A prescriber ordered an oral colon-cleansing agent as preparation for the colonoscopy. Instead, the patient was inadvertently given a product that is used for patients undergoing dialysis. The patient later died. Classify this event as a medication error, adverse drug event, both, or neither.