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STUDY

Patient-specific electronic decision support reduces prescription of excessive doses.

Seidling HM, Schmitt SPW, Bruckner T, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:e15.

STUDY

Using an enhanced oral chemotherapy computerized provider order entry system to reduce prescribing errors and improve safety.

Collins CM, Elsaid KA. Int J Qual Health Care. 2011;23:36-43.

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Impact of implementing alerts about medication black-box warnings in electronic health records.

Yu DT, Seger DL, Lasser KE, et al. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2011;20:192-202.

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Evaluation of inpatient admissions and potential antimicrobial and analgesic dosing errors in overweight children.

Miller JL, Johnson PN, Harrison DL, Hagemann TM. Ann Pharmacother. 2010;44:35-42.

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Paid malpractice claims for adverse events in inpatient and outpatient settings.

Bishop TF, Ryan AK, Casalino LP. JAMA. 2011;305:2427-2431.

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Potassium and phosphorus repletion in hospitalized patients: implications for clinical practice and the potential use of healthcare information technology to improve prescribing and patient safety.

Hemstreet BA, Stolpman N, Badesch DB, May SK, McCollum M. Curr Med Res Opin. 2006;22:2449-2455.

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Decreasing errors in pediatric continuous intravenous infusions.

Lehmann CU, Kim GR, Gujral R, Veltri MA, Clark JS, Miller MR. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2006;7:225-230.

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Determinants of patient-reported medication errors: a comparison among seven countries.

Lu CY, Roughead E. Int J Clin Pract. 2011;65:733-740.

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Computerized physician order entry of injectable antineoplastic drugs: an epidemiologic study of prescribing medication errors.

Nerich V, Limat S, Demarchi M, et al. Int J Med Inform. 2010;79:699-706.

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Fall prevention in acute care hospitals: a randomized trial.

Dykes PC, Carroll DL, Hurley A, et al. JAMA. 2010;304:1912-1918.

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Prescribers' responses to alerts during medication ordering in the long term care setting.

Judge J, Field TS, DeFlorio M, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006;13:385-390.

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Medication error reporting in nursing homes: identifying targets for patient safety improvement.

Greene SB, Williams CE, Pierson S, Hansen RA, Carey TS. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:218-222.

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Antiretroviral medication errors among hospitalized patients with HIV infection.

Rastegar DA, Knight AM, Monolakis JS. Clin Infect Dis. 2006;43:933-38.

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Assessing controlled substance prescribing errors in a pediatric teaching hospital: an analysis of the safety of analgesic prescription practice in the transition from the hospital to home.

Lee BH, Lehmann CU, Jackson EV, et al. J Pain. 2009;10:160-166.

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Standardized multidisciplinary protocol improves handover of cardiac surgery patients to the intensive care unit.

Joy BF, Elliott E, Hardy C, Sullivan C, Backer CL, Kane JM. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2011;12:304-308.

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Matching identifiers in electronic health records: implications for duplicate records and patient safety.

McCoy AB, Wright A, Kahn MG, Shapiro JS, Bernstam EV, Sittig DF. BMJ Qual Saf. 2013;22:219-224.

STUDY

Oral chemotherapy safety practices at US cancer centres: questionnaire survey.

Weingart SN, Flug J, Brouillard D, et al. BMJ. 2007;334:407.

REVIEW

Avoiding wrong site surgery: a systematic review.

DeVine J, Chutkan N, Norvell DC, Dettori JR. Spine. 2010;35(suppl 9):S28-S36.

STUDY

Ambulatory care adverse events and preventable adverse events leading to a hospital admission.

Woods DM, Thomas EJ, Holl JL, Weiss KB, Brennan TA. Qual Saf Health Care. 2007;16:127-131.

COMMENTARY

Controversies surrounding use of order sets for clinical decision support in computerized provider order entry.

Bobb AM, Payne TH, Gross PA. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2007;14:41-47.

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