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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (122)

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•Quality Improvement Strategies (71)

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•Health Care Providers (244)

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•Hospitals (175)

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STUDY

Unintended effects of a computerized physician order entry nearly hard-stop alert to prevent a drug interaction: a randomized controlled trial.

Strom BL, Schinnar R, Aberra F, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:1578-1583.

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.

STUDY

Errors and omissions in hospital prescriptions: a survey of prescription writing in a hospital.

Calligaris L, Panzera A, Arnoldo L, et al. BMC Clin Pharmacol. 2009;9:9.

STUDY

Can an electronic prescribing system detect doctors who are more likely to make a serious prescribing error?

Coleman JJ, Hemming K, Nightingale PG, et al. J R Soc Med. 2011;104:208-218.

STUDY

Preventing potentially inappropriate medication use in hospitalized older patients with a computerized provider order entry warning system.

Mattison MLP, Afonso KA, Ngo LH, Mukamal KJ. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:1331-1336.

STUDY

Parenteral nutrition prescribing processes using computerized prescriber order entry: opportunities to improve safety.

Hilmas E, Peoples JD. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2012;36(suppl 2):32S-35S.

STUDY

Pharmacists' interventions in prescribing errors at hospital discharge: an observational study in the context of an electronic prescribing system in a UK teaching hospital.

Abdel-Qader DH, Harper L, Cantrill JA, Tully MP. Drug Saf. 2010;33:1027-1044.

STUDY

Medication reconciliation at hospital discharge: evaluating discrepancies.

Wong JD, Bajcar JM, Wong GG, et al. Ann Pharmacother. 2008;42:1373-1379.

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

Transitioning between electronic health records: effects on ambulatory prescribing safety.

Abramson EL, Malhotra S, Fischer K, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2011;26:868-874.

STUDY

Inappropriate medications in elderly ICU survivors: where to intervene?

Morandi A, Vasilevskis EE, Pandharipande PP, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171:1032-1034.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medication errors associated with documented allergies.

PA-PSRS Patient Saf Advis. September 2008;5:75-80.

STUDY

Prevalence of error-prone abbreviations used in medication prescribing for hospitalised patients: multi-hospital evaluation.

Dooley MJ, Wiseman M, Gu G. Intern Med J. 2012;42:e19-e22.

STUDY

Analgesic prescribing errors and associated medication characteristics.

Smith HS, Lesar TS. J Pain. 2011;12:29-40.

STUDY

A prevalence study of errors in opioid prescribing in a large teaching hospital.

Davies ED, Schneider F, Childs S, et al. Int J Clin Pract. 2011;65:923-929.

STUDY

A multidisciplinary approach to adverse drug events in pediatric trauma patients in an adult trauma center.

Kalina M, Tinkoff G, Gleason W, Veneri P, Fulda G. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2009;25:444-446.

COMMENTARY

Eptifibatide Epilogue

Churchill WW, Fiumara K. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. April 2009.

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.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Events associated with the prescribing, dispensing, and administering of medication loading doses.

Carson SL, Gaunt MJ. PA-PSRS Patient Saf Advis. 2012;9:82-88.

STUDY

Evaluating clinical decision support systems: monitoring CPOE order check override rates in the Department of Veterans Affairs' computerized patient record system.

Lin C-P, Payne TH, Nichol WP, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2008;15:620-626.

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