Safe prescribing: An educational intervention for medical students

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 244-250

  Garbutt, Jane M ^a   DeFer, Thomas M ^a   Highstein, Gabrielle ^a   McNaughton, Candace ^a   Milligan, Paul ^a   Fraser, Victoria F ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MEDICATION ERROR; PRESCRIPTION; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 33746845656     PISSN: 10401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15328015tlm1803_10     Document Type: Article

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