Commentary Medication safety: just a label away. Citation Text: Jennings J, Foster J. Medication safety: just a label away. AORN J. 2007;86(4):618-25. Copy Citation Format: Google ScholarPubMedBibTeXEndNote X3 XMLEndNote 7 XMLEndnote taggedPubMedIdRIS Download Citation Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL October 24, 2007 Jennings J, Foster J. AORN J. 2007;86(4):618-25. View more articles from the same authors. This article reports on a project in a community hospital's operating room to use preprinted medication labels in the perioperative setting. When such labels were available, scrub personnel used them 73% of the time. PubMed citation Available at Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL Cite Citation Citation Text: Jennings J, Foster J. Medication safety: just a label away. AORN J. 2007;86(4):618-25. 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