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To the Editor: Dosing errors are among the most common types of medication errors.^1,2,3 Errors by a factor of 10 (the administration of a dose 10 times or 1/10 as high as appropriate) are of particular concern.⁴ There is a greater chance that an infant or a young child will receive such a dose of medication than that an adult will, because even a dose 10 times as high as the appropriate pediatric dose may represent an unsuspiciously small volume of stock solution.

We reviewed all forms of errors involving medication that were reported to the pharmacy department at a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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