Medical Errors in Iowa: Prevalence and Patients' Perspectives
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[Medical errors in hospitalized patients].
OBJECTIVE To review the current literature and to discuss medical errors in hospitalized patients emphasizing its incidence, predisposing factors and prevention mechanism. Special attention is given to medication errors and adverse drug events in newborn infants and pediatric patients. SOURCES Bibliographic review of the current literature through electronic search in Medline data-base, with ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Patient Safety
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1549-8425,1549-8417
DOI: 10.1097/pts.0000000000000523