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Best-practice protocols: Preventing adverse drug events.
Weir VL. Nurs Manage. 2005;36:24-30.

This article reports on one hospital's use of failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) to reduce errors involving intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA).
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