Medication errors in paediatric outpatients
BMJ Quality & SafetyPublished 10 August 2010Open access
Rainu Kaushal, Donald A. Goldmann, Carol Keohane, Erika L. Abramson, Susan Woolf, Catherine Yoon
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With paper prescribing, half the prescriptions had medication errors, and one in five had a potentially harmful error, very high rates that need to be addressed.
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With paper prescribing, half the prescriptions had medication errors, and one in five had a potentially harmful error. These rates are very high. Interventions targeting the ordering and administration stages have the greatest potential benefit.
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