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A prospective study to evaluate awareness about medication errors amongst health-care personnel representing North, East, West Regions of India.

March 26, 2014

Sewal RK, Singh PK, Prakash A, et al. Int J Appl Basic Med Res. 2014;4(1):43-6.

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This survey of health care professionals in India demonstrated that most have fundamental knowledge about medication errors and recognize the importance of incident reporting. The authors hope that insights from this study may support the establishment of a reporting system for medication errors in India.

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