Standard Drug Concentrations and Smart-Pump Technology Reduce Continuous-Medication-Infusion Errors in Pediatric Patients
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Standard drug concentrations and smart-pump technology reduce continuous-medication-infusion errors in pediatric patients.
OBJECTIVE To determine if combining standard drug concentrations with "smart-pump" technology reduces reported medication-infusion errors. DESIGN Preintervention and postintervention comparison of reported medication errors related to infusion therapies during the calendar years 2002 and 2003. SETTING A 242-bed university-affiliated tertiary pediatric hospital. INTERVENTION Change in cont...
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عنوان ژورنال: PEDIATRICS
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0031-4005,1098-4275
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-2452