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Systematic review of medication errors in pediatric patients.
Ghaleb MA, Barber N, Franklin BD, Yeung VW, Khaki ZF, Wong IC. Ann Pharmacother. 2006;40:1766-1776.

The authors reviewed the literature on pediatric medication errors to explore incidence and error types. They found that dosing errors were most common.
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