THE NURSES’ UNDERSTANDING ABOUT PATIENT SAFETY AND MEDICATION ERRORS
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Patient safety and medication errors
The morbidity and mortality of drug-related problems has most recently been estimated to cost $177.4 billion annually within the United States alone. Empirical investigations have also suggested that almost one-fifth of all medical errors are drug-related within hospital settings, with over half of these being of a preventable nature. As such, minimizing medication errors has emerged as a prior...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: REME: Revista Mineira de Enfermagem
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1415-2762
DOI: 10.5935/1415-2762.20140064