Inside a closed-loop medication strategy: medication management targets stages in which errors occur, step by step.

Cynthia T Williams

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Inside a closed-loop medication strategy: medication management targets stages in which errors occur, step by step.

March 6, 2005

Williams CT. Nurs Manag. 2004;35 Suppl 5:8-9, 24.

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