A new infusion syringe label system designed to reduce task complexity during drug preparation.

A. F Merry; C. S Webster; H. Connell

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A new infusion syringe label system designed to reduce task complexity during drug preparation.

June 27, 2007

Merry AF, Webster CS, Connell H. Anaesthesia. 2007;62(5).

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The authors analyzed the efficacy of safety-oriented infusion labels designed to minimize the complexity of medication preparation and found that the new labels helped reduce dosage errors.

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