mismedication

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ medication.

Noun

mismedication (countable and uncountable, plural mismedications)

1. (medicine) Inappropriate use of medication, or use of a wrong medication.
   • 2010, Professor Richard R Abood, Pharmacy Practice and the Law‎^[1]:

     There is ample documentation of overmedication, undermedication, and mismedication of nursing home residents.