Pediatric medical errors part 1: the case. A pediatric drug overdose case.

Elizabeth Burgess Dowdell

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Pediatric medical errors part 1: the case. A pediatric drug overdose case.

March 6, 2005

Dowdell EB. Pediatr Nurs. 2004;30(4):328-30.

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