Preventable adverse drug events and their causes and contributing factors: the analysis of register data.

Virpi Jylhä; Kaija Saranto; David W. Bates

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Preventable adverse drug events and their causes and contributing factors: the analysis of register data.

February 16, 2011

Jylhä V, Saranto K, Bates DW. Int J Qual Health Care. 2011;23(2):187-97.

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