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NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medication errors: a year in review.

Institute for Safe Medication Practices. Pharmacy Practice News. October 2011:7-14.

STUDY

High rates of adverse drug events in a highly computerized hospital.

Nebeker JR, Hoffman JM, Weir CR, Bennett CL, Hurdle JF. Arch Intern Med. 2005;165:1111-1116.

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

ISMP medication error report analysis.

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

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.

TOOLKIT

Looking Collectively at Risk.

Pathways for Medication Safety Tool #2. Chicago, IL: American Hospital Association; 2003.

COMMENTARY

Implementing a bar-code medication administration system.

Weber RJ. Hosp Pharm. 2008;43:1016-1023.

STUDY

The impact of prescribing safety alerts for elderly persons in an electronic medical record: an interrupted time series evaluation.

Smith DH, Perrin N, Feldstein A, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1098-1104.

STUDY

Designing decision support for insulin ordering in a computerized provider order entry system.

Wright L, Feldott CC, Hargrove FR. Hosp Pharm. 2007;42:158–161.

PRESS RELEASE/ANNOUNCEMENT

20 mEq potassium chloride in 5% dextrose and 0.45% sodium chloride injection.

MedWatch Safety Alert. Silver Spring, MD: US Food and Drug Administration; December 9, 2008.

COMMENTARY

Citrate Mix-Up

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

STUDY

Randomized trial to improve prescribing safety during pregnancy.

Raebel MA, Carroll NM, Kelleher JA, Chester EA, Berga S, Magid DJ. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2007;14:440-450.

COMMENTARY

Prescribing errors resulting in adverse drug events: how can they be prevented?

Thurmann PA. Expert Opin Drug Saf. 2006;5:489-493.

STUDY

Acceptance of recommendations by inpatient pharmacy case managers: unintended consequences of hospitalist and specialist care.

Anderegg SV, Demik DE, Carter BL, et al. Pharmacotherapy. 2013;33:11-21.

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

Safe chemotherapy administration: using failure mode and effects analysis in computerized prescriber order entry.

Kozakiewicz JM, Benis LJ, Fisher SM, Marseglia JB. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2005;62:1813-1816.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Dose of technology helps Shands at UF avoid drug errors.

Chun D. Gainsville Sun. August 21, 2006.

STUDY

Errors associated with medications removed from automated dispensing machines using override functions.

Kester K, Baxter J, Freudenthal K. Hosp Pharm. 2006;41:535-537.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Your attention please... designing effective warnings.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. August 24, 2006;11:1-3.

REVIEW

E-prescribing: a focused review and new approach to addressing safety in pharmacies and primary care.

Odukoya OK, Chui MA. Res Social Adm Pharm. 2012 Oct 10; [Epub ahead of print].

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