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Title:Study Blames Abbreviations For Medication Errors - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/80815.php
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Description:A new study in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety highlights the role abbreviations play in medication errors. According to researchers from Rutgers University who analyzed data on nearly 30,000 medication error reports contained in the United States Pharmacopeias MEDMARX® database, nearly five percent were due to abbreviations problems. [click link for full article]
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Date Added:August 29, 2007 09:00:00 AM
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