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Tablet crushing: the law!

Richard Griffith

Nurse2nurse, Volume: 3, Issue: 10, Pages: 23 - 4

Swansea University Author: Richard Griffith

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<p>A strict legal framework regulates the supply and administration of medicines to protect public safety, yet every year approximately 10,000 serious adverse drug reactions are reported in the NHS (Audit Commission 2002). The Department of Health (DOH) suggests that half of these are avoidabl...

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ISSN: 1473-2114
Published: 2003
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