Adverse drug event trigger tool: a practical methodology for measuring medication related harm
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MEDICATION SAFETY Adverse drug event trigger tool: a practical methodology for measuring medication related harm
Adverse drug events continue to be the single most frequent source of healthcare mishaps, continually placing patients at risk of injury. This is not unexpected, given that drug treatment is the most common medical intervention and medication use is a highly complex, multidisciplinary, and largely manual process. Assessing the actual safety of drug use has been historically difficult, mainly be...
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Adverse drug events continue to be the single most frequent source of healthcare mishaps, continually placing patients at risk of injury. This is not unexpected, given that drug treatment is the most common medical intervention and medication use is a highly complex, multidisciplinary, and largely manual process. Assessing the actual safety of drug use has been historically difficult, mainly be...
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عنوان ژورنال: Quality and Safety in Health Care
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1475-3898,1475-3901
DOI: 10.1136/qhc.12.3.194