Proceedings of a summit on preventing patient harm and death from IV medication errors.

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Proceedings of a summit on preventing patient harm and death from IV medication errors.

January 14, 2009

Experts convened to discuss best practices for safe intravenous medication administration. This article reports on the results of that conference along with ways to implement the suggested practices.

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