Prioritising the prevention of medication handling errors.

Thilo Bertsche; Dorothee Niemann; Yvonne Mayer; Katrin Ingram; Torsten Hoppe-Tichy; Walter E. Haefeli

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Prioritising the prevention of medication handling errors.

February 28, 2009

Bertsche T, Niemann D, Mayer Y, et al. Pharm World Sci. 2008;30(6):907-15.

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The authors developed a classification scheme for errors in medication administration, and used this to prioritize interventions to prevent such errors.

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