Medication errors in a neonatal intensive care unit. Influence of observation on the error rate.

Ainara Campino; Maria Cruz Lopez-Herrera; Ion Lopez-de-Heredia; Adolf Valls-i-Soler

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Medication errors in a neonatal intensive care unit. Influence of observation on the error rate.

September 3, 2008

Campino A, Lopez-Herrera MC, Lopez-de-Heredia I, et al. Acta Paediatr. 2008;97(11).

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Review of prescriptions by a pharmacist was associated with a reduction in prescribing errors in a neonatal intensive care unit.

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