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Prevent medication errors: a New Year's resolution: teaching patients about their medications.
Polzien G. Home Healthc Nurse. 2007;25:59-62.

The author summarizes suggestions from the 2006 Institute of Medicine report on medication error to help patients avoid medication errors.
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