AHRQ Patient Safety Network

The Collection > Hospital Pharmacy

Narrow By

clear selections

Safety Target

•Device-related Complications (15)

•Identification Errors (3)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (35)

•Medication Safety (327)

•Medical Complications (7)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (1)

•Surgical Complications (4)

Origin/Sponsor

•Africa (1)

•Asia (8)

•Australia and New Zealand (11)

•Central and South America (2)

Resource Types

•Clinical Guideline (1)

•Journal Article (243)

•Legislation/Regulation (8)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (59)

•Press Release/Announcement (3)

•Special or Theme Issue (1)

•Tools/Toolkit (5)

•Web Resource (2)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (117)

•Active Errors (72)

•Latent Errors (24)

•Near Miss (7)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (59)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (13)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (58)

•Communication Improvement (84)

•Human Factors Engineering (64)

•Teamwork (5)

•Specialization of Care (87)

•Logistical Approaches (21)

•Culture of Safety (15)

•Technologic Approaches (166)

•Education and Training (45)

Clinical Areas
< All

Hospital Pharmacy

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (265)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (244)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (101)

•Patients (8)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (320)

•Psychiatric Facilities (1)

•Ambulatory Care (7)

•Outpatient Surgery (2)

1 - 20 of 334

Show ExcerptDon't Show Excerpt

dropdown

REVIEW

Medication safety in acute care in Australia: where are we now? Part 2: a review of strategies and activities for improving medication safety 2002-2008.

Semple SJ, Roughead EE. Aust New Zealand Health Policy. 2009;6:24.

STUDY

Role of pharmacist counseling in preventing adverse drug events after hospitalization.

Schnipper JL, Kirwin JL, Cotugno MC, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:565-571.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Preventing errors relating to commonly used anticoagulants.

Sentinel Event Alert. September 24, 2008;(41):1-4.

STUDY

Pharmacist medication assessments in a surgical preadmission clinic.

Kwan Y, Fernandes OA, Nagge JJ, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2007;167:1034-1040.

STUDY

Survey of medication documentation at hospital discharge: implications for patient safety and continuity of care.

Grimes T, Delaney T, Duggan C, Kelly JG, Graham IM. Ir J Med Sci. 2008;177:93-97.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Cause for concern: drug shortages disrupt operations, tax hospitalists' treatment patterns.

Collins TR. The Hospitalist. July 2011.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MR. Hosp Pharm. 2006;41:1148-1151.

BOOK/REPORT

External Inquiry into the adverse incident that occurred at Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, 4th January 2001.

Toft B. London, England: Department of Health; 2001.

STUDY

A new method to guard inpatient medication safety by the implementation of RFID.

Sun PR, Wang BH, Wu F. J Med Syst. 2008;32:327-332.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Legality of technicians' involvement in medication reconciliation not clear.

Thompson CA. AJHP News. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2009;66:433-434.

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

Common cause analysis.

Clapper C, Crea K. Patient Saf Qual Healthc. May/June 2010;7:30-35.

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

Interpreting adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports as hospital patient safety incidents.

Davies EC, Green CF, Mottram DR, Pirmohamed M. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2010;70:102-108.

STUDY

Formal medicine reconciliation within the emergency department reduces the medication error rates for emergency admissions.

Mills PR, McGuffie AC. Emerg Med J. 2010;27:911-915.

STUDY

Improving medication management for patients: the effect of a pharmacist on post-admission ward rounds.

Fertleman M, Barnett N, Patel T. Qual Saf Health Care. 2005;14:207-211.

STUDY

The uptake of technologies designed to influence medication safety in Canadian hospitals.

Saginur M, Graham ID, Forster AJ, Boucher M, Wells GA. J Eval Clin Pract. 2008;14:27-35.

STUDY

The effect on medication errors of pharmacists charting medication in an emergency department.

Vasileff HM, Whitten LE, Pink JA, Goldsworthy SJ, Angley MT. Pharm World Sci. 2009;31:373-379.

REVIEW

Medication safety in acute care in Australia: where are we now? Part 1: a review of the extent and causes of medication problems 2002-2008.

Roughead EE, Semple SJ. Aust New Zealand Health Policy. 2009;6:18.

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