Errors and omissions in hospital prescriptions: a survey of prescription writing in a hospital

BACKGROUND: The frequency of drug prescription errors is high. Excluding errors in decision making, the remaining are mainly due to order ambiguity, non standard nomenclature and writing illegibility. The aim of this study is to analyse, as a part of a continuous quality improvement program, the qua...

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Main Authors: Calligaris, Laura, Panzera, Angela, Arnoldo, Luca, Londero, Carla, Quattrin, Rosanna, Troncon, Maria G, Brusaferro, Silvio
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2009
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2695418/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19439066
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6904-9-9
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