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Advancing medication safety: establishing a National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention.

Harris Y, Hu DJ, Lee C, Mistry M, York A, Johnson TK. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2015;41:351-360.

Adverse drug events continue to contribute to preventable errors for both hospitalized and ambulatorypatients. This commentary describes the development and implementation plans of a national effort to reduce adverse drug events in the United States.

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