Color coded medication safety system reduces community pediatric emergency nursing medication errors.

Rehema Feleke; Colleen J. Kalynych; Bonnie Lundblom; Robert L. Wears; Robert Luten; Donna Kling

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Color coded medication safety system reduces community pediatric emergency nursing medication errors.

May 27, 2009

Feleke R, Kalynych CJ, Lundblom B, et al. J Patient Saf. 2009;5(2):79-85.

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Use of color-coded medications resulted in a reduction in medication errors in simulated pediatric emergency department scenarios.

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