Influences observed on incidence and reporting of medication errors in anesthesia.

Lebron Cooper; Neil DiGiovanni; Lucy Schultz; Ashley M Taylor; Bobby Nossaman

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Influences observed on incidence and reporting of medication errors in anesthesia.

May 9, 2012

Cooper L, DiGiovanni N, Schultz L, et al. Can J Anaesth. 2012;59(6):562-70.

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Provider inexperience was found to be a risk factor for medication errors in anesthesia, in this prospective cohort study conducted at a tertiary care hospital.

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