Beliefs of ambulatory care physicians about accuracy of patient medication records and technology-enhanced solutions to improve accuracy.

Douglas L. Weeks; Cynthia F. Corbett; Glen Stream

Study

Beliefs of ambulatory care physicians about accuracy of patient medication records and technology-enhanced solutions to improve accuracy.

October 13, 2010

Weeks DL, Corbett CF, Stream G. J Healthc Qual. 2010;32(5):12-21.

View more articles from the same authors.

This survey of primary care physicians revealed strong support for technological solutions to improve medication reconciliation in ambulatory care.

PubMed citation

Free full text

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Predicting potential postdischarge adverse drug events and 30-day unplanned hospital readmissions from medication regimen complexity.

December 3, 2014

Rapid response team implementation and in-hospital mortality.

August 27, 2014

Exploring the concept of medication discrepancy within the context of patient safety to improve population health.

December 9, 2009

Medication regimen complexity and hospital readmission for an adverse drug event.

January 15, 2014

Effectiveness of a pharmacist–nurse intervention on resolving medication discrepancies for patients transitioning from hospital to home health care.

December 9, 2009

Using simulation to teach patient safety behaviors in undergraduate nursing education.

November 4, 2009

Association of provider specialty with abortion-related morbidity and adverse events among patients having procedural and medication abortions.

August 10, 2022

Effects of nurse staffing and nurse education on patient deaths in hospitals with different nurse work environments.

January 25, 2012

Measuring patient safety climate: a review of surveys.

October 12, 2005

Autopsy as a quality control measure for radiology, and vice versa.

November 7, 2012

Building a simulation-based crisis resource management course for emergency medicine, phase 1: results from an interdisciplinary needs assessment survey.

August 6, 2008

Effective interventions and implementation strategies to reduce adverse drug events in the Veterans Affairs (VA) system.

February 20, 2008

A multidisciplinary approach to adverse drug events in pediatric trauma patients in an adult trauma center.

July 15, 2009

What do we know about financial returns on investments in patient safety? A literature review.

December 21, 2005

Case study: identifying potential problems at the human/technical interface in complex clinical systems.

November 30, 2005

Relationship between tort claims and patient incident reports in the Veterans Health Administration.

April 21, 2005

Making the business case for patient safety.

March 6, 2005

High reliability: excellent care every time.

April 20, 2016

Decreasing 30-day readmission rates.

November 16, 2011

Oral chemotherapy: a home safety educational framework for healthcare providers, patients, and caregivers.

February 19, 2020

Polypharmacy in hospitalized older adult cancer patients: experience from a prospective, observational study of an oncology-acute care for elders unit.

August 5, 2009

Medicaid, hospital financial stress, and the incidence of adverse medical events for children.

March 7, 2012

Sleep quality and fatigue among prehospital providers.

April 7, 2010

Cost and workforce implications of subjecting all physicians to aviation industry work-hour restrictions.

May 6, 2009

Health system leaders' role in addressing racism: time to prioritize eliminating health care disparities.

February 10, 2021

Potential benefit of electronic pharmacy claims data to prevent medication history errors and resultant inpatient order errors.

March 23, 2016

Frequency of HIV-related medication errors and associated risk factors in hospitalized patients.

April 2, 2008

Moral distress in intensive care unit personnel is not consistently associated with adverse medication events and other adverse events

October 16, 2019

Patient complaints and malpractice risk.

March 6, 2005

Inside a closed-loop medication strategy: medication management targets stages in which errors occur, step by step.

March 6, 2005

Patient safety during sedation by anesthesia professionals during routine upper endoscopy and colonoscopy: an analysis of 1.38 million procedures.

April 20, 2016

Organizational safety climate and job enjoyment in hospital surgical teams with and without crew resource management training,

January 26, 2022

The effectiveness of root cause analysis: what does the literature tell us?

June 25, 2008

Practical application of high-reliability principles in healthcare to optimize quality and safety outcomes.

February 7, 2018

Computer-assisted diagnostic checklist in clinical neurology.

March 23, 2016

Nurse staffing and inpatient hospital mortality.

March 23, 2011

Electronic approaches to making sense of the text in the adverse event reporting system.

September 7, 2016

Rare adverse medical events in VA inpatient care: reliability limits to using patient safety indicators as performance measures.

February 6, 2008

Unintentional therapeutic errors involving insulin in the ambulatory setting reported to poison centers.

March 16, 2011

Development of the barriers to error disclosure assessment tool.

September 27, 2017

University of Michigan: quality and safety in an academic medical center.

November 5, 2008

National quality program achieves improvements in safety culture and reduction in preventable harms in community hospitals.

June 20, 2018

Negotiating safety when staffing falls short.

June 30, 2010

The new CMS hospital quality star ratings: the stars are not aligned.

November 9, 2016

Promoting civility in the OR: an ethical imperative.

March 8, 2017

An evolving hospital quality star rating system from CMS: aligning the stars.

May 26, 2021

Using implementation safety indicators for CPOE implementation.

January 14, 2009

Reporting of Clinical Adverse Events Scale: a measure of doctor and nurse attitudes to adverse event reporting.

October 22, 2008

Nurses' and patients' appraisals show patient safety in hospitals remains a concern.

November 21, 2018

On the CUSP: Stop BSI: evaluating the relationship between central line–associated bloodstream infection rate and patient safety climate profile.

November 12, 2014

A multihospital safety improvement effort and the dissemination of new knowledge.

March 6, 2005

A network collaboration implementing technology to improve medication dispensing and administration in critical access hospitals.

September 22, 2010

Effect of changes in hospital nursing resources on improvements in patient safety and quality of care: a panel study.

November 28, 2018

Assessment of attitudes toward deprescribing in older Medicare beneficiaries in the United States.

December 19, 2018

Medication reconciliation only as good as the IT allows.

April 20, 2011

The real malady of Marcel Proust and what it reveals about diagnostic errors in medicine.

June 8, 2016

A piece of my mind. Speak up.

June 28, 2017

Chasing the 6-sigma: drawing lessons from the cockpit culture.

March 7, 2018

Weight and size descriptors for drug dosing: too many options and too many errors.

January 11, 2023

Bridging the feedback gap: a sociotechnical approach to informing clinicians of patients' subsequent clinical course and outcomes.

June 30, 2021

Post-traumatic stress disorder amongst surgical trainees: an unrecognised risk?

December 9, 2015

Relationship between high-fidelity simulation and patient safety in prelicensure nursing education: a comprehensive review.

October 31, 2012

Creating a culture of safety in the emergency department: the value of teamwork training.

June 12, 2013

Impact of nurse peer review on a culture of safety.

October 3, 2018

Semantically ambiguous language in the teaching operating room.

December 15, 2021

Frontline nurses' clinical judgment in recognizing, understanding, and responding to patient deterioration: a qualitative study.

April 5, 2023

Failure to rescue and 30-day in-hospital mortality in hospitals with and without crew-resource-management safety training.

January 22, 2020

Patient and family empowerment as agents of ambulatory care safety and quality.

September 7, 2016

Communication failures contributing to patient injury in anaesthesia malpractice claims.

September 1, 2021

Identifying modifiable barriers to medication error reporting in the nursing home setting.

December 5, 2007

Rural community members' perceptions of harm from medical mistakes: a High Plains Research Network (HPRN) study.

March 21, 2007

Disrupting diagnostic reasoning: do interruptions, instructions, and experience affect the diagnostic accuracy and response time of residents and emergency physicians?

February 18, 2015

Sex differences in operating room care giver perceptions of patient safety: a pilot study from the Veterans Health Administration Medical Team Training Program.

March 3, 2010

Maintaining and sustaining the On the CUSP: Stop BSI model in Hawaii.

January 30, 2013

Comparing measures of patient safety for inpatient care provided to veterans within and outside the VA system in New York.

February 27, 2008

Organizational costs of preventable medical errors.

March 6, 2005

Implementation of a telepharmacy service to provide round-the-clock medication order review by pharmacists.

December 15, 2010

Patient Safety Organizations: a new paradigm in quality management and communication systems in healthcare.

July 22, 2009

Understanding why quality initiatives succeed or fail: a sociotechnical systems perspective.

March 23, 2016

Bar code medication administration technology: characterization of high-alert medication triggers and clinician workarounds.

March 23, 2011

Medication errors in injured patients.

September 27, 2017

What's in a name? Provider perception of injured John Doe patients.

April 3, 2019

Clinical faculty: taking the lead in teaching quality improvement and patient safety.

October 8, 2014

Effect of bar-code–assisted medication administration on medication error rates in an adult medical intensive care unit.

June 24, 2009

Effect of outcome on physician judgments of appropriateness of care.

March 6, 2005

The SBAR communication technique: teaching nursing students professional communication skills.

July 15, 2009

Call-shift fatigue and use of countermeasures and avoidance strategies by certified registered nurse anesthetists: a national survey.

June 17, 2015

Oversedation of a patient with obstructive sleep apnea prior to imaging.

February 21, 2018

Insulin dosing error in a patient with severe hyperkalemia.

January 17, 2018

Creating a distraction simulation for safe medication administration.

September 3, 2014

Frequency of medication administration timing error in hospitals: a systematic review.

March 29, 2023

Patient perception of fall risk and fall risk screening scores.

March 15, 2023

A simulation design for research evaluating safety innovations in anaesthesia.

January 28, 2009

Effective triage can ameliorate the deleterious effects of delayed transfer of trauma patients from the emergency department to the ICU.

June 3, 2009

Simulation-based trial of surgical-crisis checklists.

January 30, 2013

Retained guidewires in the Veterans Health Administration: getting to the root of the problem.

May 9, 2018

National Quality Forum 30 safe practices: priority and progress in Iowa hospitals.

April 26, 2006

Improving admission medication reconciliation with pharmacists or pharmacy technicians in the emergency department: a randomised controlled trial.

November 8, 2017

Development and preliminary testing of the Coordination Process Error Reporting Tool (CPERT), a prospective clinical surveillance mechanism for teamwork errors in the pediatric cardiac ICU.

November 30, 2016

Medication reconciliation improvement utilizing process redesign and clinical decision support.

January 29, 2020

Related Resources

Estimating the impact on patient safety of enabling the digital transfer of patients' prescription information in the English NHS.

April 17, 2024

Implementation of medication reconciliation in outpatient cancer care.

August 9, 2023

Patient Safety Innovations

Ambulatory Safety Nets to Reduce Missed and Delayed Diagnoses of Cancer

July 31, 2023

Patient Safety Innovations

Remote Response Team and Customized Alert Settings Help Improve Management of Sepsis

May 31, 2023

Racism and electronic health records (EHRs): perspectives for research and practice.

April 12, 2023

WebM&M Cases

Duplicate Therapies in Retail Pharmacy

March 15, 2023

Unintended consequences of patient online access to health records: a qualitative study in UK primary care.

November 16, 2022

Understanding factors that could influence patient acceptability of the use of the PINCER intervention in primary care: a qualitative exploration using the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability.

November 9, 2022

Medication adverse events in the ambulatory setting: a mixed-methods analysis.

October 26, 2022

Prevalence and sources of duplicate information in the electronic medical record.

October 12, 2022

Challenges and strategies for patient safety in primary care: a qualitative study.

September 28, 2022

Improving medication reconciliation in hospitals.

August 31, 2022

Inaccurate penicillin allergy labeling, the electronic health record, and adverse outcomes of care.

August 24, 2022

An evolution of reporting: identifying the missing link.

August 10, 2022

Prescribing errors in post-COVID-19 patients: prevalence, severity, and risk factors in patients visiting a post-COVID-19 outpatient clinic.

March 23, 2022

Medicines reconciliation in the emergency department: important prescribing discrepancies between the shared medication record and patients' actual use of medication.

March 16, 2022

A mixed methods evaluation of medication reconciliation in the primary care setting.

March 2, 2022

CancelRx: a health IT tool to reduce medication discrepancies in the outpatient setting.

September 1, 2021

Advanced medication reconciliation: a systematic review of the impact on medication errors and adverse drug events associated with transitions of care.

June 16, 2021

Using medication containers during pharmacist transitional care visits and impact on medication discrepancies identified and hospital readmission risk.

November 11, 2020

Association of electronic health record design and use factors with clinician stress and burnout.

September 4, 2019

Automated detection of wrong-drug prescribing errors.

August 28, 2019

Clinician perspectives on electronic health records, communication, and patient safety across diverse medical oncology practices.

July 17, 2019

Medication accuracy in electronic health records for microbial keratitis.

June 12, 2019

Patients as diagnostic collaborators: sharing visit notes to promote accuracy and safety.

May 22, 2019

Using electronic health records to identify adverse drug events in ambulatory care: a systematic review.

March 13, 2019

A Crisis in Health Care: A Call to Action on Physician Burnout.

January 30, 2019

Prospective daily review of discharge medications by pharmacists: effects on measures of safety and efficiency.

January 16, 2019

Selected medication safety risks that can easily fall off the radar screen—part 1, part 2, and part 3.

December 19, 2018

Assessment of patient medication adherence, medical record accuracy, and medication blood concentrations for prescription and over-the-counter medications.

November 28, 2018

See More About The Topic

Ambulatory Clinic or Office

Health Care Providers

Facility and Group Administrators

Information Professionals

Medication Errors/Preventable Adverse Drug Events

Beliefs of ambulatory care physicians about accuracy of patient medication records and technology-enhanced solutions to improve accuracy.

Ambulatory Safety Nets to Reduce Missed and Delayed Diagnoses of Cancer

Remote Response Team and Customized Alert Settings Help Improve Management of Sepsis

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Beliefs of ambulatory care physicians about accuracy of patient medication records and technology-enhanced solutions to improve accuracy.

Ambulatory Safety Nets to Reduce Missed and Delayed Diagnoses of Cancer

Remote Response Team and Customized Alert Settings Help Improve Management of Sepsis

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue logged in

New Users to the PSNet site