Interventions for reducing medication errors in children in hospital

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Soe, Aung ⁱ   Vermeulen, Hester ^b,c   Apampa, Bugewa ^d   Fernando, Bernard ^e   Ghaleb, Maisoon A ^f   Neubert, Antje ^g   Thayyil, Sudhin ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^h IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ MEDWAY MARITIME HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CINAHL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; EMBASE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICATION ERROR; MEDLINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PSYCINFO; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 42749108543     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006208     Document Type: Review

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