Medication Safety in Patients under 18 Years Old; a Retrospective Study based on Iraqi Pharmacovigilance Center Database

Medication safety is an important part of the comprehensive patient safety term. Medication safety is gaining more attention as the World Health Organization set the goal of decreasing medication harm by (50%) for the next 5 years when launching the third global challenge. Studying medication safety...

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Main Authors: Hani Gh. Jawad (Author), Eman S. Saleh (Author), Manal M. Younus (Author)
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Published: College of Pharmacy University of Baghdad, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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