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Safe medication prescribing and monitoring in the outpatient setting.
Shojania KG. CMAJ. 2006;174:1257-1258.

The author presents three case examples of medication error in ambulatory settings, suggests how to avoid such errors, and provides a table describing common errors during the five stages of medication administration.
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