Adopting National Quality Forum medication safe practices: progress and barriers to hospital implementation.

Kimberly J. Rask; Steven D. Culler; Tracy Scott; Susan Kohler; Jonathan N. Hawley; Esther Friedman; Dorothy “Vi” Naylor

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Adopting National Quality Forum medication safe practices: progress and barriers to hospital implementation.

October 4, 2011

Rask KJ, Culler SD, Scott T, et al. J Hosp Med. 2007;2(4).

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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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