Small effort, big payoff...automated maximum dose alerts with hard stops.

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Small effort, big payoff...automated maximum dose alerts with hard stops.

October 2, 2013

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute care edition! September 19, 2013;18:1-4.

This newsletter article relates three incidents involving high-alert medication errors and describes how automated warnings could have prevented them.

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