Clinical relevance of and risk factors associated with medication administration time errors.

Rick Teunissen; Jacqueline Bos; Hans Pot; Marien Pluim; Cornelis Kramers

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Clinical relevance of and risk factors associated with medication administration time errors.

July 10, 2013

Teunissen R, Bos J, Pot H, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2013;70(12):1052-6.

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Administration of medications at the wrong time—most often more than one hour after the scheduled administration—was found to be the most common type of medication administration error at a Dutch hospital.

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