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In inpatient settings, adverse drug events account for an estimated one in three of all hospital adverse events. They affect approximately 2 million hospital stays every year, and prolong hospital stays by between one and five days.
Though newer “smart” infusion pumps are increasingly becoming more sophisticated, they cannot prevent all programming and administration errors. Health care professionals that use smart infusion pumps must still practice the rights of medication administration and have other professionals double-check all high-risk infusions.
There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
It is difficult to obtain enough calcium without consuming milk or other dairy foods.
Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.