title: A medication error.
abstract: A patient had inadvertently mistaken her son's diflorasone diacetate ointment for gentamicin sulfate ophthalmic ointment and applied it to her eye in error. Although no serious consequences resulted from the instillation of the topical corticosteroid, this incident provides another example of mistaken medication tubes.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Servodidio
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Abramson
mesh_terms: D001623:Betamethasone / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D005260:Female; D005839:Gentamicins; D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic
chemical_list: D005839:Gentamicins; D001623:Betamethasone; C014477:diflorasone