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Specific to High-Risk Drugs

•Anticoagulants (36)

•Insulin (19)

•Chemotherapeutic Agents (46)

•Look-Alike, Sound-Alike Drugs (49)

•Opiates/Narcotics (27)

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•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (76)

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•Latent Errors (14)

•Near Miss (6)

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•Quality Improvement Strategies (68)

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•Error Reporting and Analysis (81)

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•Medicine (168)

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•Health Care Providers (212)

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•Non-Health Care Professionals (40)

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COMMENTARY

Look-alike and sound-alike medicines: risks and 'solutions.'

Emmerton LM, Rizk MFS. Int J Clin Pharm. 2012;34:4-8.

STUDY

Development and pilot testing of guidelines to monitor high-risk medications in the ambulatory setting.

Tjia J, Field TS, Garber LD, et al. Am J Manag Care. 2010;16:489-496.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Your attention please... designing effective warnings.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. August 24, 2006;11:1-3.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Neuromuscular blocking agents: reducing associated wrong-drug errors.

PA-PSRS Patient Saf Advis. December 2009;6:109-114.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MR. Hosp Pharm. 2009;44:654-657.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Results of ISMP survey on high-alert medications: differences between nursing, pharmacy, and risk/quality/safety perspectives.

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. February 9, 2012;17:1-4.

STUDY

Oral chemotherapy safety practices at US cancer centres: questionnaire survey.

Weingart SN, Flug J, Brouillard D, et al. BMJ. 2007;334:407.

PRESS RELEASE/ANNOUNCEMENT

Important Warnings and Instructions for Heparin Sodium Injection (Baxter).

FDA Public Health Advisory [US Food and Drug Administration Web site]. February 28, 2008.

STUDY

Antiretroviral medication errors among hospitalized patients with HIV infection.

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

STUDY

Drug formulations that require potentially inaccurate volumes to prepare doses for infants and children.

Uppal N, Yasseen B, Seto W, Parshuram CS. CMAJ. 2011;183:E246-E248.

STUDY

Adverse drug reactions and therapeutic errors in older adults: a hazard factor analysis of poison center data.

Cobaugh DJ, Krenzelok EP. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2006;63:2228-2234.

STUDY

Potential drug interactions and duplicate prescriptions among cancer patients.

Riechelmann RP, Tannock IF, Wang L, Saad ED, Taback NA, Krzyzanowska MK. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2007;99:592-600.

PRESS RELEASE/ANNOUNCEMENT

Medication errors resulting from confusion between risperidone (Risperdal) and ropinirole (Requip).

MedWatch Safety Alert, FDA Drug Safety Communication. Silver Spring, MD: US Food and Drug Administration; June 13, 2011.

STUDY

A comparison of voluntarily reported medication errors in intensive care and general care units.

Kane-Gill SL, Kowiatek JG, Weber RJ. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:55-59.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Drug package inserts get mixed reception.

Mitka M. JAMA. 2006;295:1110-1111.

STUDY

An in-depth analysis of medication errors in hospitalized patients with HIV.

Snyder AM, Klinker K, Orrick JJ, Janelle J, Winterstein AG. Ann Pharmacother. 2011;45:459-468.

COMMENTARY

ISMP medication error report analysis.

Cohen MR, Smetzer JL. Hosp Pharm. 2010:45;352-355.

STUDY

Inappropriate drug use in the elderly: a nationwide register-based study.

Johnell K, Fastbom J, Rosén M, Leimanis A. Ann Pharmacother. 2007;41:1243-1248.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Promethazine conundrum: IV can hurt more than IM injection!

ISMP Medication Safety Alert! Acute Care Edition. November 2, 2006;11:1-3.

STUDY

Patient-reported safety and quality of care in outpatient oncology.

Weingart SN, Price J, Duncombe D, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2007;33:83-94.

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