Medication errors in an emergency department in a large teaching hospital in Tehran

Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 937-942

  Dabaghzadeh, Fatemeh ^a,d   Rashidian, Arash ^b   Torkamandi, Hassan ^c   Alahyari, Sara ^c   Hanafi, Somayaeh ^c   Farsaei, Shadi ^a   Javadi, Mohammadreza ^a,e  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84889259828     PISSN: 17350328     EISSN: 17266890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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