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NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Don't underestimate the impact of change on risk potential.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. September 11, 2008;13:1-3.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MR, Smetzer JL. Hosp Pharm. 2010;45:282-287.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MR, Smetzer JL. Hosp Pharm. 2010;45:13-17.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MR, Smetzer JL. Hosp Pharm. 2009;44:937-938, 945.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Action needed to prevent dangerous heparin-insulin confusion.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. May 3, 2007;12:1-2.

COMMENTARY

Vial Mistakes Involving Heparin.

Vanderveen T. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. May 2009.

STUDY

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.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MR. Hosp Pharm. 2008;43:618-621.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MR. Hosp Pharm. 2009;44:654-657.

STUDY

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.

STUDY

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.

STUDY

Pharmacists' interventions in prescribing errors at hospital discharge: an observational study in the context of an electronic prescribing system in a UK teaching hospital.

Abdel-Qader DH, Harper L, Cantrill JA, Tully MP. Drug Saf. 2010;33:1027-1044.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medication errors: a year in review.

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

STUDY

Automated drug dispensing system reduces medication errors in an intensive care setting.

Chapuis C, Roustit M, Bal G, et al. Crit Care Med. 2010;38:2275-2281.

COMMENTARY

Addressing safety concerns about U-500 insulin in a hospital setting.

Samaan KH, Dahlke M, Stover J. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2011;68:63-68.

STUDY

What’s past is prologue: organizational learning from a serious patient injury.

Tamuz M, Franchois KE, Thomas EJ. Safety Sci. 2011;49:75-82.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medication errors occurring with the use of bar-code administration technology.

PA-PSRS Patient Saf Advis. December 2008;5:122-126.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Smetzer JL, Cohen MR. Hosp Pharm. 2008;43;788-792.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Follow ISMP guidelines to safeguard the design and use of automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs).

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. February 12, 2009;14:1-4.

STUDY

Medication errors recovered by emergency department pharmacists.

Rothschild JM, Churchill W, Erickson A, et al. Ann Emerg Med. 2010;55:513-521.

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