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STUDY

High incidence of medication documentation errors in a Swiss university hospital due to the handwritten prescription process.

Hartel MJ, Staub LP, Röder C, Eggli S. BMC Health Serv Res. 2011;11:199.

REVIEW

Prescribing errors in hospital practice.

Tully MP. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2012;74:668-675.

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

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

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.

STUDY

Computerized physician order entry of injectable antineoplastic drugs: an epidemiologic study of prescribing medication errors.

Nerich V, Limat S, Demarchi M, et al. Int J Med Inform. 2010;79:699-706.

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

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.

COMMENTARY

Miscalculated Risk

Strassels SA. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. August 2006.

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

Indication-based prescribing prevents wrong-patient medication errors in computerized provider order entry (CPOE).

Galanter W, Falck S, Burns M, Laragh M, Lambert BL. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2013;20:477-481.

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

The use of a CPOE log for the analysis of physicians' behavior when responding to drug-duplication reminders.

Long A-J, Chang P, Li Y-C, Chiu W-T. Int J Med Inform. 2008;77:499-506.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Medication errors associated with documented allergies.

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

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

Medication-error reporting and pharmacy resident experience during implementation of computerized prescriber order entry.

Weant KA, Cook AM, Armitstead JA. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2007;64:526-530.

STUDY

Potentially inappropriate prescribing to hospitalised patients.

Radosevic N, Gantumur M, Vlahovic-Palcevski V. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2008;17:733-737.

STUDY

Making electronic prescribing alerts more effective: scenario-based experimental study in junior doctors.

Scott GPT, Shah P, Wyatt JC, Makubate B, Cross FW. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011;18:789-798.

STUDY

Patient-specific electronic decision support reduces prescription of excessive doses.

Seidling HM, Schmitt SPW, Bruckner T, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:e15.

COMMENTARY

Eptifibatide Epilogue

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

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