A System of Drug Handling in Hospital
- 29 January 1973
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 122 (566) , 71-78
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.122.1.71
Abstract
To rely on a system of drug administration based on a transcribed drug list is to court disaster. The high incidence of errors of transcription has been documented by Crooks (1964) (1), Wallace (1965) (2), Watt et al. (in press) (3).Keywords
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