A practical approach to measure the quality of handwritten medication orders: a tool for improvement.

Jane Garbutt; Paul Milligan; Candace McNaughton; Brian M. Waterman; W Claiborne Dunagan; Victoria J. Fraser

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A practical approach to measure the quality of handwritten medication orders: a tool for improvement.

August 2, 2010

Garbutt J, Milligan P, McNaughton C, et al. J Patient Saf. 2008;1(4).

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Investigators assessed handwritten medication orders and categorized the most common prescribing errors.

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