Medication errors: classification of seriousness, type, and of medications involved in the reports from a university teaching hospital

Medication errors can be frequent in hospitals; these errors are multidisciplinary and occur at various stages of the drug therapy. The present study evaluated the seriousness, the type and the drugs involved in medication errors reported at the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. We analyzed writ...

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Main Authors: Gabriella Rejane dos Santos Dalmolin, Eloni Terezinha Rotta, José Roberto Goldim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2013-12-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502013000400019&lng=en&tlng=en