Digital processing system avoids 17.4 million drug errors in US in one year

Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 09:31 in Health & Medicine

Processing a prescription through an electronic ordering system can halve the likelihood of a drug error, and avert more than 17 million such incidents in US hospitals in one year alone, indicates new research.

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