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Figure 2

From: Impact of computerized physician order entry on medication prescription errors in the intensive care unit: a controlled cross-sectional trial

Figure 2

Types of intercepted medication prescribing errors (MPEs) and serious MPEs. Dose, dosing error; Rate, wrong infusion rate of continuous medication; Route, wrong route of administration; Name, error in drug name; Interaction, drug-drug interaction error; Allergy, known allergy to prescribed drug; Double presc., double prescriptions; Monitoring, drug monitoring error; Others, errors in posology, concentration, contra-indication.

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