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Follow-up study of medication errors reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
Varricchio F, Reed J, and the VAERS Working Group. South Med J. 2006;99:486-489.
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The investigators analyzed medication errors submitted to a national database to assess whether they were true errors, the reasons for these errors, and responses to the errors.
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