Using the ISMP Medication Safety Self-Assessment to improve medication use processes.

Timothy S. Lesar; Arnold Mattis; Ernest Anderson; Jean Avery; John Fields; Jill Gregoire; Allen J. Vaida; VHA New England Medication Error Prevention Initiative Collaborative

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Using the ISMP Medication Safety Self-Assessment to improve medication use processes.

March 6, 2005

Lesar TS, Mattis A, Anderson E, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Saf. 2003;29(5):211-26.

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