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Medication Errors/Preventable Adverse Drug Events

•Ordering/Prescribing Errors (132)

•Transcription Errors (23)

•Dispensing Errors (46)

•Administration Errors (170)

•Monitoring Errors and Failures (7)

Origin/Sponsor

•Australia and New Zealand (25)

•Central and South America (2)

•Europe (102)

•North America (943)

Resource Types

•Audiovisual (14)

•Book/Report (32)

•Clinical Guideline (2)

•Journal Article (836)

•Legislation/Regulation (15)

•Meeting/Conference (3)

•Newsletter/Journal (1)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (158)

•Press Release/Announcement (13)

•Special or Theme Issue (11)

•Tools/Toolkit (20)

•Web Resource (11)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (387)

•Active Errors (282)

•Latent Errors (93)

•Near Miss (27)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (256)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (68)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (324)

•Communication Improvement (252)

•Human Factors Engineering (198)

•Teamwork (27)

•Specialization of Care (100)

•Logistical Approaches (82)

•Culture of Safety (80)

•Technologic Approaches (396)

•Education and Training (161)

Clinical Areas

•Allied Health Services (3)

•Medicine (678)

•Nursing (140)

•Pharmacy (418)

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (877)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (807)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (347)

•Patients (81)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (715)

•Psychiatric Facilities (6)

•Residential Facilities (41)

•Ambulatory Care (164)

•Outpatient Surgery (6)

•Patient Transport (8)

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NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Raising the index of suspicion: red flags that represent credible threats to patient safety.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. July 26, 2012;17:1-3.

BOOK/REPORT

First, Do Less Harm: Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety.

Koppel R, Gordon S, ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press; 2012. ISBN: 9780801450778.

SPECIAL OR THEME ISSUE

Patient Safety.

Matlow A, Laxer RM, eds. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2006;53:1053-1267.

AUDIOVISUAL

Avoiding medical error.

Colvin G. "The Colvin Interview." CNN. February 5, 2007.

TOOLKIT

Making Strides in Safety.

Chicago, IL: American Medical Association.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Pediatric safety.

Runy LA. Hosp Health Netw. May 2009.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Health for life. Keys to safer hospitals.

Berwick DM. Newsweek. December 12, 2005;46:75-78.

DATABASE/DIRECTORY

Rockville, MD: U.S. Pharmacopeia; 2011.

MEETING/CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

2005 Annual Patient Safety and Health Information Technology Conference: Making the Health Care System Safer through Implementation and Innovation.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. June 6-10, 2005.

BOOK/REPORT classic

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Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series.

Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors, Aspden P, Wolcott J, Bootman JL, Cronenwett LR, eds. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press; 2007.

AWARD RECIPIENT

Hospitals win safety award for simple changes.

Sipkoff M. Drug Topics (Health-System Edition). January 22, 2007.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Preventing errors relating to commonly used anticoagulants.

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

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

USP initiatives for the safe use of medical gases.

Zaidi K, Curry PD Jr, Becker SC. Pharmaceutical Technology. November 2, 2005;29:102-103.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

5 sure-fire methods: complying with NPSG.03.04.01.

Joint Commission: The Source. January 2012;10:5-6.

AUDIOVISUAL

Health agency: drug errors still common.

Knox R. "All Things Considered." National Public Radio. July 20, 2006.

STUDY

Effectiveness of a pharmacist–nurse intervention on resolving medication discrepancies for patients transitioning from hospital to home health care.

Setter SM, Corbett CF, Neumiller JJ, Gates BJ, Sclar DA, Sonnett TE. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2009;66:2027-2031.

AUDIOVISUAL

Hospital Medication Errors Commonplace.

Palca J. National Public Radio. July 28, 2006.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Heparin errors continue despite prior, high-profile, fatal events.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. July 17, 2008;13:1-2.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Anticoagulant safety practices call for pharmacist supervision.

Scott A. Drug Topics (Health-System Edition). November 10, 2008.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Misprogramming PCA concentration leads to dosing errors.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. August 28, 2008;13:1-3.

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