Oral outpatient chemotherapy medication errors in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

James A Taylor; Laura Winter; Leah J Geyer; Douglas S Hawkins

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Oral outpatient chemotherapy medication errors in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

August 23, 2006

Taylor JA, Winter L, Geyer LJ, et al. Cancer. 2006;107(6):1400-6.

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This small cohort study demonstrated that dosing or administration errors occurred with nearly 10% of oral chemotherapeutic drugs administered to pediatric outpatients.

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