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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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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.

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Effect of bar-code technology on the safety of medication administration.

Poon EG, Keohane CA, Yoon CS, et al. N Engl J Med. 2010;362:1698-1707.

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Preventing potentially inappropriate medication use in hospitalized older patients with a computerized provider order entry warning system.

Mattison MLP, Afonso KA, Ngo LH, Mukamal KJ. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:1331-1336.

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Does the implementation of an electronic prescribing system create unintended medication errors? A study of the sociotechnical context through the analysis of reported medication incidents.

Redwood S, Rajakumar A, Hodson J, Coleman JJ. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2011;11:29.

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Prevalence of medication administration errors in two medical units with automated prescription and dispensing.

Rodriguez-Gonzalez CG, Herranz-Alonso A, Martin-Barbero ML, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2012;19:72-78.

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Errors and omissions in hospital prescriptions: a survey of prescription writing in a hospital.

Calligaris L, Panzera A, Arnoldo L, et al. BMC Clin Pharmacol. 2009;9:9.

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Bedouch P, Allenet B, Grass A, et al. J Clin Pharm Ther. 2009;34:187-195.

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Omitted and unjustified medications in the discharge summary.

Perren A, Previsdomini M, Cerutti B, Soldini D, Donghi D, Marone C. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:205-208.

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Can an electronic prescribing system detect doctors who are more likely to make a serious prescribing error?

Coleman JJ, Hemming K, Nightingale PG, et al. J R Soc Med. 2011;104:208-218.

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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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Medication errors: the impact of prescribing and transcribing errors on preventable harm in hospitalised patients.

van Doormaal JE, van den Bemt PM, Mol PG, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:22-27.

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Unintended effects of a computerized physician order entry nearly hard-stop alert to prevent a drug interaction: a randomized controlled trial.

Strom BL, Schinnar R, Aberra F, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:1578-1583.

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Medication errors with electronic prescribing (eP): two views of the same picture.

Savage I, Cornford T, Klecun E, Barber N, Clifford S, Franklin BD. BMC Health Serv Res. 2010;10:135.

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Developing a programme for medication reconciliation at the time of admission into hospital.

Manzorro AG, Zoni AC, Rieiro CR, et al. Int J Clin Pharm. 2011;33:603-609.

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Multidisciplinary system for detecting medication errors in antineoplastic chemotherapy.

Serrano-Fabiá A, Albert-Marí A, Almenar-Cubells D, Jiménez-Torres NV. J Oncol Pharm Pract. 2010;16:105-112.

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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.

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Incidence and root cause analysis of wrong-site pain management procedures: a multicenter study.

Cohen SP, Hayek SM, Datta S, et al. Anesthesiology. 2010;112:711-718.

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Assessing the impact of an educational program on decreasing prescribing errors at a university hospital.

Peeters MJ, Pinto SL. J Hosp Med. 2009;4:97-101.

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