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BOOK/REPORT
Managing Patients' Medicines after Discharge from Hospital.
London, UK: Care Quality Commission; October 2009. CQC-039-500-ESP-102009. ISBN: 9781845622442.
STUDY
Medicines reconciliation using a shared electronic health care record.
Moore P, Armitage G, Wright J, Dobrzanski S, Ansari N, Hammond I, Scally A. J Patient Saf. 2011;7:147-153.
STUDY
The care transitions intervention: translating from efficacy to effectiveness.
Voss R, Gardner R, Baier R, Butterfield K, Lehrman S, Gravenstein S. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171:1232-1237.
CLINICAL GUIDELINE
Primary care–relevant interventions to prevent falling in older adults: a systematic evidence review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
Michael YL, Whitlock EP, Lin JS, Fu R, O'Connor EA, Gold R; US Preventive Services Task Force. Ann Intern Med. 2010;153:815-825.
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High risk prescribing in primary care patients particularly vulnerable to adverse drug events: cross sectional population database analysis in Scottish general practice.
Guthrie B, McCowan C, Davey P, Simpson CR, Dreischulte T, Barnett K. BMJ. 2011;342:d3514.
STUDY
Advanced practice nursing students' identification of patient safety issues in ambulatory care.
Schnall R, Larson E, Stone PW, John RM, Bakken S. J Nurs Care Qual. 2013;28:169-175.
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Exploring situational awareness in diagnostic errors in primary care.
Singh H, Davis Giardina T, Petersen LA, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:30-38.
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Frequency of failure to inform patients of clinically significant outpatient test results.
Casalino LP, Dunham D, Chin MH, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2009;169:1123-1129.
REVIEW
Patient safety systems in the primary health care of diabetes—a story of missed opportunities?
Taub N, Baker R, Khunti K, et al. Diabet Med. 2010;27:1322-1326.
BOOK/REPORT
Safety in Doses.
London, UK: National Patient Safety Agency; 2009. ISBN: 9781906624088.
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Electronic medical record availability and primary care depression treatment.
Harman JS, Rost KM, Harle CA, Cook RL. J Gen Intern Med. 2012;27:962-967.
BOOK/REPORT
Patient Safety: HHS Has Taken Steps to Address Unsafe Injection Practices, but More Action Is Needed.
Kohn LT. Washington, DC: United States Government Accountability Office; July 2012. Publication GAO-12-712.
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The preliminary development and testing of a global trigger tool to detect error and patient harm in primary-care records.
de Wet C, Bowie P. Postgrad Med J. 2009;85:176-180.
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Stopping the error cascade: a report on ameliorators from the ASIPS collaborative.
Parnes B, Fernald D, Quintela J, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2007;16:12-16.
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Sources and types of discrepancies between electronic medical records and actual outpatient medication use.
Orrico KB. J Manag Care Pharm. 2008;14:626-631.
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Incident reporting practices in the preanalytical phase: low reported frequencies in the primary health care setting.
Söderberg J, Grankvist K, Brulin C, Wallin O. Scand J Clin Lab Invest. 2009;69:731-735.
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Deficits in communication and information transfer between hospital-based and primary care physicians: implications for patient safety and continuity of care.
Kripalani S, LeFevre F, Phillips CO, Williams MV, Basaviah P, Baker DW. JAMA. 2007;297:831-841.
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Signal and noise: applying a laboratory trigger tool to identify adverse drug events among primary care patients.
Brenner S, Detz A, López A, Horton C, Sarkar U. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:670-675.
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Problems after discharge and understanding of communication with their primary care physicians (PCPs) among hospitalized seniors: a mixed methods study.
Arora VM, Prochaska ML, Farnan JM, et al. J Hosp Med. 2010;5:385-391.
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A pharmacist-led information technology intervention for medication errors (PINCER): a multicentre, cluster randomised, controlled trial and cost-effectiveness analysis.
Avery AJ, Rodgers S, Cantrill JA, et al. Lancet. 2012;379:1310-1319.
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