Standardizing IV infusion medication concentrations to reduce variability in medication errors.
Practical strategies for preventing medication errors in pediatric patients are needed. Medication safety can be improved by assessing current practices, developing evidence-based interventions to improve such practices, evaluating the impact of new evidence-based innovations, and providing feedback to clinicians [20]. Nurses at the point of care are well positioned to identify and implement structures and processes to address medication errors so that the most preventable errors become a thing of the past.
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Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Mattel Children's Hospital, University of California, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1701, USA. jbullock@mednet.ucla.edu
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Gawlinski
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