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May 2024
34m 37s

#30 Preventing and reporting medication ...

Uppsala Monitoring Centre
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Send a message to the show! Look-alike medicines, unclear communication and distractions during administration – medication errors may occur for many different reasons. They all have in common that they are unintended mistakes in the drug treatment process that may or may not lead to patient harm. In this episode Ghita Benabdallah and Loubna Alj from the nat ... Show More
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