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Medication errors in older people with mental health problems: a review.
Maidment ID, Haw C, Stubbs J, Fox C, Katona C, Franklin BD. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2008;23:564-573.

This review sought to determine medication error rates in elderly patients with mental health diagnoses but found that varied definitions and methods limited the generalizability of previous studies' findings.
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