Causes and outcome of medication errors in hospitalized patients

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1489-1492

  Dibbi, Huda M ^a   Al Abrashy, Hanan F ^a   Hussain, Waleed A ^a   Fatani, Mohammad I ^a   Karima, Talal M ^a  

^a HERA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CAPTOPRIL; CEFTRIAXONE; DICLOFENAC; DIGOXIN; FUROSEMIDE; GENTAMICIN; GLIBENCLAMIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; ISOPHANE INSULIN; LYSINE ACETYLSALICYLATE; PHYTOMENADIONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONFUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSAGE FORM; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HANDWRITING; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; JOB PERFORMANCE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICATION ERROR; NEPHROTOXICITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SAUDI ARABIA; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 36049024350     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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