Medication prescribing errors in a pediatric inpatient tertiary care setting in Saudi Arabia

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Al Jeraisy, Majed I ^a   Alanazi, Menyfah Q ^b   Abolfotouh, Mostafa A ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

in patient; medication errors; pediatric; prescriptions; Saudi Arabia

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051598827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-4-294     Document Type: Article

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