Prevention of Pediatric Medication Errors by Hospital Pharmacists and the Potential Benefit of Computerized Physician Order Entry
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- Published by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in Pediatrics
- Vol. 119 (1) , e77-e85
- https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2006-0034
Abstract
OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this work was to characterize medication errors and adverse drug events intercepted by a system of pediatric clinical pharmacists and to determine whether the addition of a computerized physician order entry system would improve medication safety.Keywords
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