Background: Serious and life-threatening adverse drug events are often attributed to intravenous medication administration errors. Although smart infusion pumps are increasingly being adopted by hospitals to prevent such errors, data are lacking on their effectiveness in clinical practice. Aim: To measure and characterise intravenous medication administration errors and their clinical significance before and after the implementation of smart infusion pumps.
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