Identifying medication errors in surgical prescription charts.

Joan Simons

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Identifying medication errors in surgical prescription charts.

July 21, 2010

Simons J. Paediatr Nurs. 2010;22(5):20-4.

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This study used manual chart review to estimate the incidence of prescribing errors in post-surgical pediatric patients.

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