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Group urges going metric to head off dosing mistakes.
June 18, 2014
Budnitz DS, Lovegrove MC, Rose KO. PEDIATRICS. 2014;133(2).
Many adults do not understand instructions for common liquid prescription medications, potentially increasing the risk of serious medication errors. This piece discusses the effort to standardize metrics in dosing instructions for both hospital and community pharmacies to reduce errors in liquid medication administration.
