AHRQ Patient Safety Network

The Collection > Hospital Pharmacy

Narrow By

clear selections

Safety Target

•Device-related Complications (18)

•Identification Errors (3)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (34)

•Medication Safety (349)

•Medical Complications (7)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (1)

•Surgical Complications (4)

Origin/Sponsor

•Africa (1)

•Asia (8)

•Australia and New Zealand (10)

•Central and South America (3)

Resource Types

•Clinical Guideline (1)

•Journal Article (261)

•Legislation/Regulation (9)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (63)

•Press Release/Announcement (1)

•Special or Theme Issue (1)

•Tools/Toolkit (4)

•Web Resource (2)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (129)

•Active Errors (79)

•Latent Errors (25)

•Near Miss (5)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (59)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (18)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (64)

•Communication Improvement (84)

•Human Factors Engineering (70)

•Teamwork (4)

•Specialization of Care (85)

•Logistical Approaches (22)

•Culture of Safety (16)

•Technologic Approaches (176)

•Education and Training (45)

Clinical Areas
< All

Hospital Pharmacy

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (270)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (258)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (106)

•Patients (12)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (335)

•Psychiatric Facilities (1)

•Ambulatory Care (5)

•Outpatient Surgery (2)

1 - 20 of 356

Show ExcerptDon't Show Excerpt

dropdown

STUDY

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.

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

Improving the usability of intravenous medication labels to support safe medication delivery.

Bauer DT, Guerlain S. Int J Ind Ergon. 2011;41:394-399.

STUDY

Does user-centred design affect the efficiency, usability and safety of CPOE order sets?

Chan J, Shojania KG, Easty AC, Etchells EE. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011;18:276-281.

STUDY

Utilising improvement science methods to optimise medication reconciliation.

White CM, Schoettker PJ, Conway PH, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:372-380.

STUDY

Electronic health records and adverse drug events after patient transfer.

Boockvar KS, Livote EE, Goldstein N, Nebeker JR, Siu A, Fried T. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:e16.

STUDY

Reducing medication errors and improving systems reliability using an electronic medication reconciliation system.

Agrawal A, Wu WY. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2009;35:106-114.

STUDY

Medication errors resulting from computer entry by nonprescribers.

Santell JP, Kowiatek JG, Weber RJ, Hicks RW, Sirio CA. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2009;66:843-853.

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.

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

Medication reconciliation in a community, nonteaching hospital.

Wortman SB. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65:2047-2054.

STUDY

Discrepancies between home medications listed at hospital admission and reported medical conditions.

Slain D, Kincaid SE, Dunsworth TS. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother. 2008;6:161-166.

STUDY

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.

STUDY

Evaluation of causes and frequency of medication errors during information technology downtime.

Hanuscak TL, Szeinbach SL, Seoane-Vazquez E, Reichert BJ, McCluskey CF. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2009;66:1119-1124.

STUDY

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.

STUDY

Bar-code technology for medication administration: medication errors and nurse satisfaction.

Fowler SB, Sohler P, Zarillo DF. MedSurg Nursing. 2009;18:103-110.

STUDY

Predictive value of alert triggers for identification of developing adverse drug events.

Moore C, Li J, Hung CC, Downs J, Nebeker JR. J Patient Saf. 2009;5:223-228.

STUDY

Medication-error alerts for warfarin orders detected by a bar-code-assisted medication administration system.

Fitzhenry F, Doran J, Lobo B, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2011;68:434-441.

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.

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.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next >