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Antiretroviral medication errors in a national medication error database.
Gray J, Hicks RW, Hutchings C. AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2005;19:803-812.

The authors studied error reports from the Medmarx database and found that 3% of the antiretroviral product errors reported were harmful and that wrong dose and wrong medication delivery errors were the most frequent failures.

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