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Chemotherapy in home care: one team's performance improvement journey toward reducing medication errors.
Ewen BM, Combs R, Popelas C, Faraone GM. Home Healthc Nurse. 2012;30:28-37.

This commentary describes how a medication administration error launched one organization's efforts to improve patient safety statewide.
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