Reducing preventable medication safety events by recognizing renal risk.

Willa Fields; Christine Tedeschi; Justine Foltz; Terry Myers; Karen Heaney; Kelly Bosak; Albert Rizos; Rita Snyder

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Reducing preventable medication safety events by recognizing renal risk.

May 14, 2008

Fields W, Tedeschi C, Foltz J, et al. Clin Nurse Spec. 2008;22(2):73-8; quiz 79-80.

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This study suggests that routine assessment of kidney function can reduce the risk of medication-related adverse events resulting from prescribing errors in patients with impaired creatinine clearance levels.

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