Tenfold medication dose prescribing errors

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1833-1839

  Lesar, Timothy S ^a   Mena, Rafaela ^b   Paquette Lamontagne, Nicolas ^b  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Medication errors; Tenfold errors

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; DRUG; LEVOTHYROXINE;

ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG DOSAGE FORM; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG OVERDOSE; HUMAN; INJECTION; MALPRACTICE; PEDIATRICS; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADULT; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; NEWBORN; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; MEDICATION SYSTEMS, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0036896266     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1345/aph.1C032     Document Type: Article

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