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Feasibility of Aquablation prostate surgery performed as day cases First published: 20 December 2023 No abstract is available for this article.

The intravenous (IV) administration of drugs is a complex process and errors frequently occur. For example, in a recent study on 10 wards in two UK hospitals we found that errors occurred in almost half the IV drug preparations and administrations, 1% of which were severe and 58% moderate.1 Box 1 summarises the main findings of this study.

Validity and reliability of observational methods for studying medication administration errors B Dean, N Barber American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy Jan 2001, 58 (1) 54-59;