Medication safety: just a label away.

Jane Jennings; Jan Foster

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Medication safety: just a label away.

October 24, 2007

Jennings J, Foster J. AORN J. 2007;86(4):618-25.

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This article reports on a project in a community hospital's operating room to use preprinted medication labels in the perioperative setting. When such labels were available, scrub personnel used them 73% of the time.

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