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Adopting National Quality Forum medication safe practices: progress and barriers to hospital implementation.
Rask K, Culler S, Scott T, et al. J Hosp Med. 2007;2:212-218.

This study discovered that most surveyed hospitals had successfully adopted seven of nine medication-related safe practices and further characterized hospital culture and resource restraints as the primary barriers to wider implementation.
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