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STUDY

Improving medication safety in primary care using electronic health records.

Nemeth LS, Wessell AM. J Patient Saf. 2010;6:238-243.

STUDY

Managed care penetration and other factors affecting computerized physician order entry in the ambulatory setting.

Menachemi N, Ford EW, Chukmaitov A, Brooks RG. Am J Manag Care. 2006;12:738-744.

STUDY

Medication errors reported by US family physicians and their office staff.

Kuo GM, Phillips RL, Graham D, Hickner JM. Qual Saf Health Care. 2008;17:286-290.

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.

BOOK/REPORT

Coordination Between Emergency and Primary Care Physicians.

Carrier E, Yee T, Holtzwart RA. Washington, DC: National Institute for Health Care Reform; 2011.

STUDY

Receptionist input to quality and safety in repeat prescribing in UK general practice: ethnographic case study.

Swinglehurst D, Greenhalgh T, Russell J, Myall M. BMJ. 2011;343:d6788.

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Ambulatory prescribing errors among community-based providers in two states.

Abramson EL, Bates DW, Jenter C, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2012;19:644-648.

STUDY

Management of test results in family medicine offices.

Elder NC, McEwen TR, Flach JM, Gallimore JJ. Ann Fam Med. 2009;7:343-351.

STUDY

Experience with a trigger tool for identifying adverse drug events among older adults in ambulatory primary care.

Singh R, McLean-Plunckett EA, Kee R, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:199-204.

STUDY

Electronic medical record availability and primary care depression treatment.

Harman JS, Rost KM, Harle CA, Cook RL. J Gen Intern Med. 2012;27:962-967.

STUDY

The preliminary development and testing of a global trigger tool to detect error and patient harm in primary-care records.

de Wet C, Bowie P. Postgrad Med J. 2009;85:176-180.

STUDY

Frequency of failure to inform patients of clinically significant outpatient test results.

Casalino LP, Dunham D, Chin MH, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2009;169:1123-1129.

STUDY

Trends in primary care clinician perceptions of a new electronic health record.

El-Kareh R, Gandhi TK, Poon EG, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2009;24:464-468.

STUDY

Patient safety in after-hours telephone medicine.

Killip S, Ireson CL, Love MM, Fleming ST, Katirai W, Sandford K. Fam Med. 2007;39:404-409.

COMMENTARY

Smart pumps: advanced capabilities and continuous quality improvement.

Vanderveen T. Patient Saf Quality Healthc. January/February 2007.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Nursing homes seen deficient on basic care.

Dembner A. Boston Globe. July 3, 2006;Health Science section:A1.

STUDY

Assessing the value of electronic prescribing in ambulatory care: A focus group study.

Weingart SN, Massagli M, Cyrulik A, et al. Int J Med Inform. 2009;78:571-578.

STUDY

Identifying diagnostic errors in primary care using an electronic screening algorithm.

Singh H, Thomas EJ, Khan MM, Petersen LA. Arch Intern Med. 2007;167:302-308.

COMMENTARY

Implementing patient safety initiatives in rural hospitals.

Klingner J, Moscovice I, Tupper J, Coburn A, Wakefield M. J Rural Health. 2009;25:352-357.

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