Medication safety: Are we there yet?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1019-1020

  Schnipper, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE; DRUG;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICATION ERROR; OUTPATIENT CARE; POTENTIALLY INAPPROPRIATE MEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); AGED; DRUG TOXICITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; NOTE; POLYPHARMACY; STATISTICS;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DRUG TOXICITY; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; INPATIENTS; MEDICATION ERRORS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; POLYPHARMACY;

EID: 79959302600     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.220     Document Type: Article

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