Nineteen per cent of paediatric inpatient medication orders were associated with administration errors and 13.2% had prescribing errors in five London hospitals

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Jason Hall. Evid Based Nurs. 2010 Oct.

. 2010 Oct;13(4):103.

doi: 10.1136/ebn1077.

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