Medication errors during hospital drug 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: Quality and Safety in Health Care
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1475-3898,1475-3901
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.5.2.121