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In one of the first formal studies linking the use of abbreviations to medication errors, researchers reporting their findings in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety state that 4.7% of the 643,151 errors reported to the Medmarx program from 2004 through 2006 were attributable to abbreviation use.

Abbreviations formally linked to medication errors