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Medication Safety

•Side Effects/Adverse Drug Reactions (32)

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•Specific to High-Risk Drugs (258)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (369)

•Active Errors (270)

•Latent Errors (104)

•Near Miss (24)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (403)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (90)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (340)

•Communication Improvement (417)

•Human Factors Engineering (219)

•Teamwork (63)

•Specialization of Care (145)

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•Allied Health Services (2)

•Medicine (813)

•Nursing (119)

•Pharmacy (532)

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•Health Care Executives and Administrators (1023)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (439)

•Patients (121)

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•Hospitals (881)

•Psychiatric Facilities (6)

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NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

JCAHO tightens leash on medication reconciliation.

Perry LE. Drug Topics: Health-System Edition. March 20, 2006.

COMMENTARY

Developing and implementing new safe practices: voluntary adoption through statewide collaboratives.

Leape LL, Rogers G, Hanna D, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2006;15:289-295.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Using medication reconciliation to prevent errors.

Sentinel Event Alert. January 25, 2006;(35):1-4.

TOOLKIT

Making Strides in Safety.

Chicago, IL: American Medical Association.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Perfect is possible.

Berwick DM, Leape LL. Newsweek. October 16, 2006:70-71.

BOOK/REPORT

Guiding Principles to Achieve Continuity in Medication Management.

Canberra, Australia: Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council; July 2005. ISBN: 0642825971.

MEASUREMENT TOOL/INDICATOR

2011 ISMP Medication Safety Self Assessment for Hospitals.

Horsham, PA: Institute for Safe Medication Practices; April 2011.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Fixing the medication reconciliation breakdown.

Starr D, West L. Most Wired Magazine. November 9, 2006.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Improving Health Care Quality.

Wisc Med J. 2006:105;1-86.

COMMENTARY

Making inpatient medication reconciliation patient centered, clinically relevant and implementable: a consensus statement on key principles and necessary first steps.

Greenwald JL, Halasyamani L, Greene J, et al. J Hosp Med. 2010;5:477-485.

STUDY

National Quality Forum 30 safe practices: priority and progress in Iowa hospitals.

Ward MM, Evans TC, Spies AJ, Roberts LL, Wakefield DS. Am J Med Qual. 2006;21:101-108.

COMMENTARY

Patient safety beyond the hospital.

Gandhi TK, Lee TH. N Engl J Med. 2010;363:1001-1003.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Practitioners agree on medication reconciliation value, but frustration and difficulties abound.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. July 13, 2006;11:1-2.

STUDY

Utility of an online medication-error-reporting system.

Savage SW, Schneider PJ, Pedersen CA. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2005;62:2265-2270.

TOOLKIT

Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Medication Reconciliation Toolkit.

Chicago, IL: Northwestern Memorial Hospital; 2007.

BOOK/REPORT

Meeting the Joint Commission's 2013 National Patient Safety Goals.

Oakbrook Terrace, IL: The Joint Commission; September 2012. ISBN: 9781599407555.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Technical patient safety solutions for medicines reconciliation on admission of adults to hospital.

London, UK: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence; 2007.

TOOLKIT

Leading a Strategic Planning Effort.

Pathways for Medication Safety Tool #1. Chicago, IL: American Hospital Association; 2003.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

National Patient Safety Goals.

Oakbrook Terrace, IL: The Joint Commission; 2011.

STUDY

Implementation of a medication reconciliation process in an ambulatory internal medicine clinic.

Nassaralla CL, Naessens JM, Chaudhry R, Hansen MA, Scheitel SM. Qual Saf Health Care. 2007;16:90-94.

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