AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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STUDY

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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Results of the Medications At Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) study: an analysis of medication reconciliation errors and risk factors at hospital admission.

Gleason KM, McDaniel MR, Feinglass J, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2010;25:441-447.

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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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Medication reconciliation in ambulatory care: attempts at improvement.

Nassaralla CL, Naessens JM, Hunt VL, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:402-407.

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Accuracy of interpretation of preparticipation screening electrocardiograms.

Hill AC, Miyake CY, Grady S, Dubin AM. J Pediatr. 2011;159:783-788.

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Impact of a computerized physician order entry system on compliance with prescription accuracy requirements.

Mir C, Gadri A, Zelger GL, Pichon R, Pannatier A. Pharm World Sci. 2009;31:596-602.

COMMENTARY

Decreasing patient misidentification before chemotherapy administration.

Spruill A, Eron B, Coghill A, Talbert G. Clin J Oncol Nurs. 2009;13:716-717.

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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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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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Transitioning between electronic health records: effects on ambulatory prescribing safety.

Abramson EL, Malhotra S, Fischer K, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2011;26:868-874.

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Safety of using a computerized rounding and sign-out system to reduce resident duty hours.

Van Eaton EG, McDonough K, Lober WB, Johnson EA, Pellegrini CA, Horvath KD. Acad Med. 2010;85:1189-1195.

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Disclosure of hospital adverse events and its association with patients' ratings of the quality of care.

López L, Weissman JS, Schneider EC, Weingart SN, Cohen AP, Epstein AM. Arch Intern Med. 2009;169:1888-1894.

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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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Medication safety initiative in reducing medication errors.

Nguyen EE, Connolly PM, Wong V. J Nurs Care Qual. 2010;25:224-230.

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Potential unintended consequences due to Medicare's "No Pay for Errors Rule"? A randomized controlled trial of an educational intervention with internal medicine residents.

Mookherjee S, Vidyarthi AR, Ranji SR, Maselli J, Wachter RM, Baron RB. J Gen Intern Med. 2010;25:1097-1101.

COMMENTARY

Dealing honestly with an honest mistake.

Liang NL, Herring ME, Bush RL. J Vasc Surg. 2010;51:494-495.

COMMENTARY

Confusion about epinephrine dosing leading to iatrogenic overdose: a life-threatening problem with a potential solution.

Kanwar M, Irvin CB, Frank JJ, Weber K, Rosman H. Ann Emerg Med. 2010;55:341-344.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Smetzer JL, Cohen MR. Hosp Pharm. 2008;43:869-872.

STUDY

High performance teamwork training and systems redesign in outpatient oncology.

Bunnell CA, Gross AH, Weingart SN, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2013;22:405-413.

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Challenges and opportunities to prevent transfusion errors: a Qualitative Evaluation for Safer Transfusion (QUEST).

Heddle NM, Fung M, Hervig T, et al; BEST Collaborative. Transfusion. 2012;52:1687-1695.

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