An observational study of medication administration errors in old-age psychiatric inpatients.

Camilla Haw; Jean Stubbs; Geoff Dickens

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An observational study of medication administration errors in old-age psychiatric inpatients.

September 27, 2017

Haw C, Stubbs J, Dickens G. Int J Qual Health Care. 2007;19(4):210-6.

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The researchers observed clinical staff administering medications in an elderly psychiatric patient population and saw that errors were common yet rarely of serious clinical consequence.

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