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3. The prescriber ordered 30 mg/m? of a drug PO start for a patient who has a BSA of 1.45 m2. The “safe dose range for this d
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Prescribed dose is 30mg/m2

for the patient ,it will be 30*1.45=43.5 mg which is higher than given safe dose range.

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