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Reducing and Preventing Adverse Drug Events To Decrease Hospital Costs

Figure 2. Commonly studied medication errors as causes of adverse drug events (ADEs): percent of ADEs for each cause

Bar chart showing medication errors as causes of adverse drug events in four studies by dose error, known allergy, wrong drug/patient, route error, frequency. For details, select [D] Text Description below.

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