Interruptions during hospital nurses’ medication administration rounds
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Medication errors during hospital drug rounds.
Objective--To determine the nature and rate of drug administration errors in one National Health Service hospital. Design--Covert observational survey be tween January and April 1993 of drug rounds with intervention to stop drug administration errors reaching the patient. Setting--Two medical, two surgical, and two medicine for the elderly wards in a former district general hospital, now a NHS ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nursing Reports
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2039-4403,2039-439X
DOI: 10.4081/nursrep.2013.e4