Medication Errors in the Outpatient Setting
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Medication errors in the outpatient setting: classification and root cause analysis.
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Surgery
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0004-0010
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.3.278