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Medication Errors/Preventable Adverse Drug Events

•Ordering/Prescribing Errors (209)

•Transcription Errors (28)

•Dispensing Errors (64)

•Administration Errors (228)

•Monitoring Errors and Failures (12)

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•Central and South America (3)

•Europe (151)

•North America (1045)

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•Book/Report (34)

•Clinical Guideline (2)

•Journal Article (986)

•Legislation/Regulation (15)

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•Newspaper/Magazine Article (172)

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•Special or Theme Issue (14)

•Tools/Toolkit (21)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (455)

•Active Errors (341)

•Latent Errors (102)

•Near Miss (31)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (287)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (83)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (351)

•Communication Improvement (286)

•Human Factors Engineering (255)

•Teamwork (29)

•Specialization of Care (119)

•Logistical Approaches (91)

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•Technologic Approaches (467)

•Education and Training (200)

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•Allied Health Services (3)

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•Medicine (804)

•Nursing (161)

•Pharmacy (507)

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•Health Care Providers (1006)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (915)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (412)

•Patients (87)

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•Hospitals (814)

•Psychiatric Facilities (6)

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•Ambulatory Care (189)

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ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Preventing errors relating to commonly used anticoagulants.

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

COMMENTARY

Improving heparin safety: a multidisciplinary invited conference.

Peterson C, Ham CW, Vanderveen T. Hosp Pharm. 2008;43:491-497.

COMMENTARY

Preparing your hospital for compliance with The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals.

Murdaugh L, Jordin R. Hosp Pharm. 2008;43:728-733.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Reduce readmissions with pharmacy programs that focus on transitions from the hospital to the community.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. November 15, 2012;17:1-3.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Heparin overdose in three infants revisits hospital error issues.

Phend C. MedPage Today. November 26, 2007.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Proper positioning of pharmacy label on Hospira PCA vials will avoid interference with scanning.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. August 14, 2008;13:1-3.

AUDIOVISUAL PRESENTATION

When things go wrong.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Campaign Live. August 18, 2008.

STUDY

Impact of a standard medication chart on prescribing errors: a before-and-after audit.

Coombes ID, Stowasser DA, Reid C, Mitchell CA. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:478-485.

STUDY

Collaboration between pharmacists, physicians and nurse practitioners: a qualitative investigation of working relationships in the inpatient medical setting.

Makowsky MJ, Schindel TJ, Rosenthal M, Campbell K, Tsuyuki RT, Madill HM. J Interprof Care. 2009;23:169-84.

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.

STUDY

Intravenous infusion safety technology: return on investment.

Danello SH, Maddox RR, Schaack GJ. Hosp Pharm. 2009;44:680-687, 696.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medication errors: when pharmacy is closed.

PA-PSRS Patient Saf Advis. March 2012;9:11-17.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medication errors occurring with the use of bar-code administration technology.

PA-PSRS Patient Saf Advis. December 2008;5:122-126.

STUDY

Adopting real-time surveillance dashboards as a component of an enterprisewide medication safety strategy.

Waitman LR, Phillips IE, McCoy AB, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2011;37:326-332.

STUDY

A review of verbal order policies in acute care hospitals.

Wakefield DS, Wakefield BJ, Despins L, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2012;38:24-33.

BOOK/REPORT

Inpatient Computerized Provider Order Entry: Findings from the AHRQ Health IT Portfolio.

Dixon BE, Zafar A, for AHRQ National Resource Center for Health IT. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; January 2009. AHRQ Publication No. 09-0031-EF.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

CPOE: it don't come easy.

Anderson HJ. Health Data Manag. January 1, 2009;17:18.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Officials investigate infants' heparin OD at Texas hospital.

Vonfremd M, Ibanga I. ABC News.com. July 10, 2008.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Using clinical decision support to improve medication reconciliation.

Moore G. Patient Saf Qual Healthc. November/December 2006;3:28-30, 32-33.

STUDY

Reporting trends in a regional medication error data-sharing system.

Anderson JG, Ramanujam R, Hensel DJ, Sirio CA. Health Care Manag Sci. 2010;13:74-83.

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