Follow-up study of medication errors reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

Frederick Varricchio; John Reed; VAERS Working Group

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Follow-up study of medication errors reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

June 7, 2006

Varricchio F, Reed J, Group VAERSW. South Med J. 2006;99(5):486-9.

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The investigators analyzed medication errors submitted to a national database to assess whether they were true errors, the reasons for these errors, and responses to the errors.

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