Independent double-checks for high-alert medications: Essential practice

Nursing

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 65-67

  Baldwin, Katrina ^c   Walsh, Virginia ^a,b  

^a Hotel Dieu Grace Hospital Windsor   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^c LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDICATION ERROR; METHODOLOGY; NURSING CARE; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; SAFETY;

HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; NURSING CARE; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT SAFETY; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84897002071     PISSN: 03604039     EISSN: 15388689     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000444547.64972.dc     Document Type: Article

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