The last mile: Taking the final steps in preventing pediatric pharmaceutical poisonings

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 190-192

  Budnitz, Daniel S ^a   Lovegrove, Maribeth C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; SALICYLIC ACID;

ACT; CHILD RESISTANT CONTAINER; CHILD SAFETY; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG INTOXICATION; DRUG PACKAGING; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PEDIATRIC PHARMACEUTICAL POISONING; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS;

EID: 84855714599     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: 10976833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2011.09.020     Document Type: Editorial

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