Safe prescribing: an educational intervention for medical students.

Jane Garbutt; Thomas M. DeFer; Gabrielle Highstein; Candace McNaughton; Paul Milligan; Victoria F. Fraser

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Safe prescribing: an educational intervention for medical students.

July 19, 2006

Garbutt J, DeFer TM, Highstein G, et al. Teach Learn Med. 2006;18(3):244-50.

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The authors describe an intervention to improve prescribing by medical students, and they found the program was effective in reducing handwritten prescription errors.

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