Guidelines for timely medication administration: response to the CMS "30-minute rule."

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Guidelines for timely medication administration: response to the CMS "30-minute rule."

January 26, 2011

This article reports results from a survey on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services "30-minute rule" and provides a set of revised guidelines.

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