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Origin/Sponsor

•Asia (5)

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Resource Types

•Journal Article (236)

•Legislation/Regulation (3)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (27)

•Special or Theme Issue (1)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (122)

•Active Errors (81)

•Latent Errors (13)

•Near Miss (5)

Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (66)

•Legal and Policy Approaches (9)

•Error Reporting and Analysis (52)

•Communication Improvement (44)

•Human Factors Engineering (32)

•Teamwork (5)

•Specialization of Care (22)

•Logistical Approaches (14)

•Culture of Safety (6)

•Technologic Approaches (145)

•Education and Training (44)

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Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (223)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (195)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (116)

•Patients (6)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (157)

•Psychiatric Facilities (1)

•Residential Facilities (5)

•Ambulatory Care (51)

•Outpatient Surgery (1)

•Patient Transport (1)

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STUDY

Quality improvement project to reduce perioperative opioid oversedation events in a paediatric hospital.

Vermaire D, Caruso MC, Lesko A, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:895-902.

COMMENTARY

Shortage of perioperative drugs: implications for anesthesia practice and patient safety.

De Oliveira GS Jr, Theilken LS, McCarthy RJ. Anesth Analg. 2011;113:1429-1435.

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.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MR, Smetzer JL. Hosp Pharm. 2010;45:13-17.

STUDY

Assessing controlled substance prescribing errors in a pediatric teaching hospital: an analysis of the safety of analgesic prescription practice in the transition from the hospital to home.

Lee BH, Lehmann CU, Jackson EV, et al. J Pain. 2009;10:160-166.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MR, Smetzer JL. Hosp Pharm. 2010;45:282-287.

STUDY

Identifying and reducing medication errors in psychiatry: creating a culture of safety through the use of an adverse event reporting mechanism.

Jayaram G, Doyle D, Steinwachs D, Samuels J. J Psychiatr Pract. 2011;17:81–88.

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

Antiretroviral medication errors among hospitalized patients with HIV infection.

Rastegar DA, Knight AM, Monolakis JS. Clin Infect Dis. 2006;43:933-38.

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Prescribers' responses to alerts during medication ordering in the long term care setting.

Judge J, Field TS, DeFlorio M, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006;13:385-390.

STUDY

Improving ambulatory prescribing safety with a handheld decision support system: a randomized controlled trial.

Berner ES, Houston TK, Ray MN, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006;13:171-179.

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

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.

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Potassium and phosphorus repletion in hospitalized patients: implications for clinical practice and the potential use of healthcare information technology to improve prescribing and patient safety.

Hemstreet BA, Stolpman N, Badesch DB, May SK, McCollum M. Curr Med Res Opin. 2006;22:2449-2455.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Another tragic parenteral nutrition compounding error.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. April 21, 2011;16:1-3.

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.

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

Electronic prescribing within an electronic health record reduces ambulatory prescribing errors.

Abramson EL, Barrón Y, Quaresimo J, Kaushal R. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2011;37:470-478.

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.

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