AHRQ Patient Safety Network

National Alert Network for Serious Medication Errors. Bethesda, MD: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and Institute for Safe Medication Practices; January 23, 2013.

COMMENTARY

Appropriate prescribing of medications: an eight-step approach.

Pollock M, Bazaldua OV, Dobbie AE. Am Fam Physician. 2007;75:231-236, 239-240.

COMMENTARY

Prevent medication errors: a New Year's resolution: teaching patients about their medications.

Polzien G. Home Healthc Nurse. 2007;25:59-62.

STUDY

Adverse drug events in the outpatient setting: an 11-year national analysis.

Bourgeois FT, Shannon MW, Valim C, Mandl KD. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2010;19:901-910.

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.

STUDY

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.

STUDY

Improving self-reporting of adverse drug events in a West Virginia hospital.

Schade CP, Hannah K, Ruddick P, Starling C, Brehm J. Am J Med Qual. 2006;21:335-341.

STUDY

National survey on the effect of oncology drug shortages on cancer care.

McBride A, Holle LM, Westendorf C, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2013;70:609-617.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Side tracks on the safety express. Interruptions lead to errors and unfinished…wait, what was I doing?

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. November 29, 2012;17:1-3.

STUDY

Consistency between coded poison center data and fatality abstract narratives for therapeutic error deaths in older adults.

Hayes BD, Klein-Schwartz W. Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2010;48:68-71.

NEWSLETTER/JOURNAL

Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety.

Princeton, NJ: Dove Press. ISSN: 1179-1365.

COMMENTARY

Tubing safety in the obstetric setting: preventing medication errors.

Broussard BS. Nurs Womens Health. 2009;13:155-158.

TOOLKIT

Med List.

Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors, Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction, Massachusetts Medical Society.

STUDY

From research to practice: factors affecting implementation of prospective targeted injury-detection systems.

Sorensen AV, Harrison MI, Kane HL, Roussel AE, Halpern MT, Bernard SL. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:527-533.

STUDY

Effect of a pharmacist-led multicomponent intervention focusing on the medication monitoring phase to prevent potential adverse drug events in nursing homes.

Lapane KL, Hughes CM, Daiello LA, Cameron KA, Feinberg J. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2011;59:1238-1245.

STUDY

Potential utility of data-mining algorithms for early detection of potentially fatal/disabling adverse drug reactions: a retrospective evaluation.

Hauben M, Reich L. J Clin Pharmacol. 2005;45:378-384.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

USP drug safety review: medication errors involving NMBAs.

Santell JP. Drug Topics (Health-System Edition). May 22, 2006.