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Medication error in anaesthesia and critical care: A cause for concern

Medication error is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in medical profession, and anaesthesia and critical care are no exception to it. Man, medicine, machine and modus operandi are the main contributory factors to it. In this review, incidence, types, risk factors and preventive measures of t...

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Autores principales: Kothari, Dilip, Gupta, Suman, Sharma, Chetan, Kothari, Saroj
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2933474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20885862
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.65351
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description Medication error is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in medical profession, and anaesthesia and critical care are no exception to it. Man, medicine, machine and modus operandi are the main contributory factors to it. In this review, incidence, types, risk factors and preventive measures of the medication errors are discussed in detail.
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spelling pubmed-29334742010-09-30 Medication error in anaesthesia and critical care: A cause for concern Kothari, Dilip Gupta, Suman Sharma, Chetan Kothari, Saroj Indian J Anaesth Review Article Medication error is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in medical profession, and anaesthesia and critical care are no exception to it. Man, medicine, machine and modus operandi are the main contributory factors to it. In this review, incidence, types, risk factors and preventive measures of the medication errors are discussed in detail. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2933474/ /pubmed/20885862 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.65351 Text en © Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Medication error in anaesthesia and critical care: A cause for concern
title Medication error in anaesthesia and critical care: A cause for concern
title_full Medication error in anaesthesia and critical care: A cause for concern
title_fullStr Medication error in anaesthesia and critical care: A cause for concern
title_full_unstemmed Medication error in anaesthesia and critical care: A cause for concern
title_short Medication error in anaesthesia and critical care: A cause for concern
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2933474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20885862
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