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Medication prescribing errors in the prehospital setting and in the ED.
Lifshitz AE, Goldstein LH, Sharist M, et al. Am J Emerg Med. 2012;30:726-731.

This study discovered that medication errors were more common in the emergency department setting than in emergency vehicles, and patients requiring multiple medications were at higher risk for medication errors.
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