Prevent medication errors: a New Year's resolution: teaching patients about their medications.

Gladys Polzien

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Prevent medication errors: a New Year's resolution: teaching patients about their medications.

January 31, 2007

Polzien G. Home Healthc Nurse. 2007;25(1):59-62.

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The author summarizes suggestions from the 2006 Institute of Medicine report on medication error to help patients avoid medication errors.

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