Methods of Recording Prescriptions in Hospital and their Effects on Transcribed Drug Lists
- 29 January 1973
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 122 (566) , 65-70
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.122.1.65
Abstract
The dangers of transcribed drug lists were emphasized in the Aitken Report (1) and by Trillwood (2). Subsequent work by Crooks (3) and by Wallace (4) has demonstrated the disturbingly high level of transcription errors in other centres.Keywords
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