Prevalence and pattern of prescription errors in a Nigerian kidney hospital
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Prevalence and pattern of prescription errors in a Nigerian kidney hospital.
OBJECTIVES To determine (i) the prevalence and pattern of prescription errors in our Centre and, (ii) appraise pharmacists' intervention and correction of identified prescription errors. DESIGN A descriptive, single blinded cross-sectional study. SETTING Kidney Care Centre is a public Specialist hospital. The monthly patient load averages 60 General Out-patient cases and 17.4 in-patients. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ghana Medical Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0855-0328
DOI: 10.4314/gmj.v50i4.6