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•Asia (5)

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Resource Types

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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (122)

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•Quality Improvement Strategies (70)

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•Health Care Providers (245)

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•Hospitals (172)

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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.

STUDY

Using an enhanced oral chemotherapy computerized provider order entry system to reduce prescribing errors and improve safety.

Collins CM, Elsaid KA. Int J Qual Health Care. 2011;23:36-43.

STUDY

Impact of implementing alerts about medication black-box warnings in electronic health records.

Yu DT, Seger DL, Lasser KE, et al. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2011;20:192-202.

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

Errors and electronic prescribing: a controlled laboratory study to examine task complexity and interruption effects.

Magrabi F, Li SY, Day RO, Coiera E. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2010;17:575-583.

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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.

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Time-dependent drug–drug interaction alerts in care provider order entry: software may inhibit medication error reductions.

van der Sijs H, Lammers L, van den Tweel A, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2009;16:864-868.

STUDY

Results of the Medications At Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) study: an analysis of medication reconciliation errors and risk factors at hospital admission.

Gleason KM, McDaniel MR, Feinglass J, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2010;25:441-447.

STUDY

Impact of health information technology on detection of potential adverse drug events at the ordering stage.

Roberts LL, Ward MM, Brokel JM, Wakefield DS, Crandall DK, Conlon P. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2010;67:1838-1846.

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.

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

The impact of prescribing safety alerts for elderly persons in an electronic medical record: an interrupted time series evaluation.

Smith DH, Perrin N, Feldstein A, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1098-1104.

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The influence that electronic prescribing has on medication errors and preventable adverse drug events: an interrupted time-series study.

van Doormaal JE, van den Bemt PMLA, Zaal RJ, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2009;16:816-825.

STUDY

Antimicrobial prescription errors in hospitalized children: role of antimicrobial stewardship program in detection and intervention.

Di Pentima MC, Chan S, Eppes SC, Klein JD. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2009;53:715-723e1.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Electronic prescribing vulnerabilities: height and weight mix-up leads to dosing error.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. August 26, 2010;15:1-3.

STUDY

Paediatric dosing errors before and after electronic prescribing.

Jani YH, Barber N, Wong ICK. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:337-340.

STUDY

Effect of a weight-based prescribing method within an electronic health record on prescribing errors.

Ginzburg R, Barr WB, Harris M, Munshi S. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2009;66:2037-2041.

STUDY

Impact of electronic prescribing in a hospital setting: a process-focused evaluation.

Cunningham TR, Geller ES, Clarke SW. Int J Med Inform. 2008;77:546-554.

COMMENTARY

Eptifibatide Epilogue

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

COMMENTARY

Sick and Pregnant

El-Ibiary S. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. November 2008.

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