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Medication Safety

•Side Effects/Adverse Drug Reactions (22)

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•Specific to High-Risk Drugs (115)

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•Asia (17)

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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (391)

•Active Errors (156)

•Latent Errors (61)

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•Quality Improvement Strategies (191)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (38)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (212)

•Communication Improvement (305)

•Human Factors Engineering (118)

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•Specialization of Care (118)

•Logistical Approaches (52)

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•Health Care Providers (631)

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•Hospitals (678)

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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.

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

Pharmacist medication assessments in a surgical preadmission clinic.

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

BOOK/REPORT

Managing Patients' Medicines after Discharge from Hospital.

London, UK: Care Quality Commission; October 2009. CQC-039-500-ESP-102009. ISBN: 9781845622442.

STUDY

Reconcilable differences: correcting medication errors at hospital admission and discharge.

Vira T, Colquhoun M, Etchells E. Qual Saf Health Care. 2006;15:122-126.

STUDY

Learning from error: identifying contributory causes of medication errors in an Australian hospital.

Nichols P, Copeland T-S, Craib IA, Hopkins P, Bruce DG. Med J Aust. 2008;188:276-279.

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

Insufficient communication about medication use at the interface between hospital and primary care.

Glintborg B, Andersen SE, Dalhoff K. Qual Saf Health Care. 2007;16:34-39.

STUDY

Health literacy and medication understanding among hospitalized adults.

Marvanova M, Roumie CL, Eden SK, Cawthon C, Schnipper JL, Kripalani S. J Hosp Med. 2011;6:488-493.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Using medication reconciliation to prevent errors.

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

COMMENTARY

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Lesar TS. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. November 2003.

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.

STUDY

Medication discrepancies in resident sign-outs and their potential to harm.

Arora V, Kao J, Lovinger D, Seiden SC, Meltzer D. J Gen Intern Med. 2007;22:1751-1755.

STUDY

Medication reconciliation during internal hospital transfer and impact of computerized prescriber order entry.

Lee JY, Leblanc K, Fernandes OA, et al. Ann Pharmacother. 2010;44:1887-1895.

REVIEW

Garcia-Caballos M, Ramos-Diaz F, Jimenez-Moleon JJ, Bueno-Cavanillas A. Age Ageing. 2010;39:430-438.

STUDY

Adverse drug events in hospitalized cardiac patients.

Fanikos J, Cina JL, Baroletti S, Fiumara K, Matta L, Goldhaber SZ. Am J Cardiol. 2007;100:1465-1469.

COMMENTARY

Implementation of a specialized pharmacy team to monitor high-risk medications during discharge.

Martin ES III, Overstreet RL, Jackson-Khalil LR, McCollough HL, Meyer TA, Xu Q. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2013;70:18-21.

BOOK/REPORT

An In Depth Investigation into Causes of Prescribing Errors by Foundation Trainees in Relation to Their Medical Education—EQUIP Study.

Dornan T, Ashcroft D, Heathfield H, et al. London: General Medical Council; 2009.

STUDY

An observational study of changes to long-term medication after admission to an intensive care unit.

Campbell AJ, Bloomfield R, Noble DW. Anaesthesia. 2006;61:1087-1092.

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.

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