Empowering the visually impaired by customized Braille prescription and thus reducing medication errors
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Reducing medication errors.
© 2000 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Public concern regarding medication errors was heightened by the recent death of infant Trevor Landry from a narcotic overdose in a Toronto-area hospital. This case involved the mistaken administration of morphine instead of meperidine postoperatively. A colleague and I reported a near-fatal medication error during general anesthesia that res...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 2021
ISSN: 0301-4738
DOI: 10.4103/ijo.ijo_1539_20