Medication errors with the dosing of insulin: problems across the continuum.

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Medication errors with the dosing of insulin: problems across the continuum.

March 17, 2010

PA-PSRS Patient Saf Advis. March 2010;7:9-17.

This article analyzed 2685 event reports involving insulin and found that the most common error types were drug omission, wrong-dose, and wrong-drug errors.

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