Best-practice protocols: preventing adverse drug events.

Vickey L. Weir

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Best-practice protocols: preventing adverse drug events.

September 28, 2005

Weir VL. Nurs Manage. 2005;36(9):24-30.

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This article reports on one hospital's use of failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) to reduce errors involving intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA).

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