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NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. November 1, 2007;12:1-3.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

ISMP updates its list of drug name pairs with Tall man letters.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. November 18, 2010;15:1-3.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Shakespeare was on target—don't be a borrower or lender.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. November 19, 2009;14:1-3.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Pump up the volume—tips for increasing error reporting.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. February 9, 2006;11:1-2,4.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

JCAHO tightens leash on medication reconciliation.

Perry LE. Drug Topics: Health-System Edition. March 20, 2006.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Drug shortages: national survey reveals high level of frustration, low level of safety.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. September 23, 2010;15,1-6.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Fixing the medication reconciliation breakdown.

Starr D, West L. Most Wired Magazine. November 9, 2006.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Oral solid medication appearance should play a greater role in medication error prevention.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. July 28, 2011;16:1-3.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Results of our survey on drug storage, stability, compatibility, and beyond use dating.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. March 22, 2012;17:1-4.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Saving lives: hospitals have signed on to a six-part plan to avoid a multitude of unnecessary deaths.

Comarow A. US News & World Report. July 18, 2005;139:74,76,79.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medical errors still claiming many lives.

Weise E. USA Today. May 18, 2005.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Drug shortages: a pharmacy informatics perspective.

Edillo PN. Pharm Purch Prod. April 2011;8:26.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Perfect is possible.

Berwick DM, Leape LL. Newsweek. October 16, 2006:70-71.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Neuromuscular blocking agents: reducing associated wrong-drug errors.

PA-PSRS Patient Saf Advis. December 2009;6:109-114.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

How has the current economy affected patient safety?

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. September 10, 2009;14:1-2.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Hospitals scramble on the front lines of drug shortages.

Sun LH. Washington Post. April 10, 2012.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Using external errors to signal a clear and present danger.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. November 6, 2008;13:1-2.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

DTaP–Tdap mix-ups now affecting hundreds of patients.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. July 1, 2010;15:1-2.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Drug shortages set to reach record levels.

Szabo L. USA Today. August 15, 2011.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Results of ISMP survey on high-alert medications: differences between nursing, pharmacy, and risk/quality/safety perspectives.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. February 9, 2012;17:1-4.

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