Parenteral drug errors: Reported error rates are likely to be underestimation

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 338, Issue 7703, 2009, Pages 1093-

  Franklin, Bryony Dean ^a   Taxis, Katja ^b   Barber, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; MEDICAL ERROR; PARENTERAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHARMACIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; INFUSION; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICATION ERROR; NOTE; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICATION ERRORS;

EID: 67650067460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b1814     Document Type: Letter

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