Examining medication errors in a tertiary hospital.

Karen Maricle; Lynn Whitehead; Mattie Rhodes

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Examining medication errors in a tertiary hospital.

December 20, 2006

Maricle K, Whitehead L, Rhodes M. J Nurs Care Qual. 2007;22(1):20-27.

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The researchers used observational methods to identify types of medication errors and found few errors in the nurse cohort, but identified wrong technique, wrong time, and missed doses as common errors.

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