Medication errors and drug-dispensing systems in a hospital pharmacy.

Tânia Azevedo Anacleto; Edson Perini; Mário Borges Rosa; Cibele Comini César

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Medication errors and drug-dispensing systems in a hospital pharmacy.

September 21, 2005

Anacleto TA, Perini E, Rosa MB, et al. Clinics. 2006;60(4).

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This commentary discusses several individual and system factors that both cause and contribute to dispensing errors.

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