Care home error rate of liquid medicine doses 4 times higher than pills

Tuesday, February 8, 2011 - 11:53 in Health & Medicine

Care home residents are more than four times as likely to get the wrong dose of medicine when it is in liquid form as they are when given pills/capsules provided in a dispenser, indicates research published online in BMJ Quality and Safety...

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