Medication errors in the neonatal intensive care unit: special patients, unique issues
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Medication errors in the neonatal intensive care unit: special patients, unique issues.
M edical errors are a common occurrence in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Although this high risk, fragile patient population is prone to a wide array of errors, medication errors are particularly common. Medication errors were the most common error type submitted to the Vermont Oxford Network’s NICQ.org voluntary reporting system. Kaushal and colleagues identified errors in 5.5% of N...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1359-2998,1468-2052
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2003.046060