Development of Pictograms for Safer Medication Handling by Healthcare Workers Using a Delphi Method

• In: Poster presentation
• At: Buenos Aires (Argentina) (2016)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-HPS-079
• By: VAILLANCOURT, Régis (Children's Hospital Of Eastern Ontario, Pharmacy, Ottawa, Canada)
• Co-author(s): Régis Vaillancourt:|Annie Pouliot:Pharmacy,Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario,Ottawa,Canada|Kim Streitenberger:,Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada ,Toronto,Canada|Sylvia Hyland:,Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada ,Toronto,Canada|Pierre Thabet:,_,;Pharmacy,Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario,Ottawa,Canada
  
• Abstract:

  Medications have inherent risks associated with their preparation and administration. As such, a key aspect of medication safety is to ensure safe medication management practices.

  Self-identified medication handling experts participated in a modified Delphi to achieve consensus on situations requiring safety pictograms for labelling in order to

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