An intervention to encourage ambulance paramedics to bring patients' own medications to the ED: Impact on medications brought in and prescribing errors

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 151-158

  Chan, Esther W ^a   Taylor, Simone E ^b   Marriott, Jennifer ^a   Barger, Bill ^c  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Blackburn North   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allied health personnel; Ambulance; Drug prescriptions; Emergency medicine; Emergency services; Hospital; Medication errors

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AMBULANCES; AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS;

EID: 77951218953     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2010.01273.x     Document Type: Article

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