When intravenous medications are involved in adverse drug events, their harmful effects may occur more rapidly, and be more severe than errors with oral medications. This is due to the direct administration into the bloodstream.
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Approximately 500,000 babies are born each year in the United States to teenage mothers.
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Approximately 25% of all reported medication errors result from some kind of name confusion.
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Excessive alcohol use costs the country approximately $235 billion every year.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.
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A glutamate carboxyl group in the enzyme deprotonates N-1 of the pyrimidine