Errors involving medications common in outpatient cancer treatment

Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 19:14 in Health & Medicine

Seven percent of adults and 19 percent of children taking chemotherapy drugs in outpatient clinics or at home were given the wrong dose or experienced other mistakes involving their medications, according to a new study led by Kathleen E. Walsh, MD, assistant professor of paediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and published in the 1 January 2009 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology...

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