Data complete?
Evaluation appropriate?
Number of potentially dangerous abbreviations in use
The risk of medication error caused by misunderstanding an abbreviation is
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Purpose: To determine if a person uses abbreviations that could be misinterpreted, resulting in a dosage error.
Specialty: Pharmacology, clinical
Objective: administration, failure handling and therapy escalation, prevention
ICD-10: T88.7,