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•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (153)

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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (223)

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NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Practitioners agree on medication reconciliation value, but frustration and difficulties abound.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. July 13, 2006;11:1-2.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Accuracy at every step: the challenge of medication reconciliation.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement Web site. March 20, 2006.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Building a case for medication reconciliation.

Nurse Advise-ERR. April 2006;4:1-3.

COMMENTARY

What medications does your patient take? Enhancing medication safety in the outpatient setting.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement. March 14, 2007.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

The consumer: and now, a warning about labels.

Franklin D. New York Times. October 25, 2005:F1.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Manic for medication safety: bar codes and drug information databases are helping to reduce medication errors.

Rogoski RR. Health Manage Technol. February 2007;28:14, 16-18.

COMMENTARY

Using pharmacogenetics to improve drug safety and efficacy.

Haga SB, Burke W. JAMA. 2004;291:2869-2871.

COMMENTARY

Medication reconciliation in acute care: ensuring an accurate drug regimen on admission and discharge.

Rodehaver C. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2005;31:406-413.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MR. Hosp Pharm. 2007;42:675-679.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MR. Hosp Pharm. 2005;40:556-557.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Improving the safety of telephone or verbal orders.

PA-PSRS Patient Saf Advis. June 2006;3:1-5.

STUDY

Assessing and monitoring override medications in automated dispensing devices.

Kowiatek JG, Weber RJ, Skledar SJ, Frank S, DeVita M. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2006;32:309-317.

FACT SHEET/FAQS

Oral Dosage Forms that Should Not Be Crushed.

Mitchell JF. Institute for Safe Medication Practices.

REVIEW

Potential role of pharmacogenomics in reducing adverse drug reactions: a systematic review.

Phillips KA, Veenstra DL, Oren E, Lee JK, Sadee W. JAMA. 2001;286:2270-2279.

STUDY

Effects of an automatic drug dispensing system on medication adverse event occurrences and cost containment at SAMSO.

Dib JG, Abdulmohsin SA, Farooki MU, et al. Hosp Pharm. 2006;41:1180-1184.

COMMENTARY

Preventing vincristine administration errors: does evidence support minibag infusions?

Schulmeister L. Clin J Oncol Nurs. 2006;10:271-273.

STUDY

Medication reconciliation for reducing drug-discrepancy adverse events.

Boockvar KS, Carlson Lacorte H, Giambanco V, Fridman B, Siu A. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother. 2006;4:236-243.

COMMENTARY

Citrate Mix-Up

Weber RJ. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. May 2006.

STUDY

Variation in medication information for elderly patients during initial interventions by emergency department physicians.

Cohen V, Jellinek SP, Likourezos A, Nemeth I, Paul T, Murphy D. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65:60-64.

STUDY

Availability of Spanish prescription labels.

Sharif I, Lo S, Ozuah PO. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2006;17:65-69.

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