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How safe is safe enough?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2015

Corinne Hohl
Corinne Hohl*
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
*
Emergency Department, Vancouver General Hospital, 910 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9; chohl@mail.ubc.ca

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Keywords

adverse drug eventerrorpatient safetypharmacist
Type
Editorial • Commentary
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , May 2014 , pp. 177 - 179
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2014

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