Reducing medication errors and transitions of care
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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: Age and Ageing
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0002-0729,1468-2834
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afaa065