Impact of a pharmacotherapy alerting system on medication errors.

Becky J Natali; Alex C Varkey; Kevin W Garey; Michael Liebl

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Impact of a pharmacotherapy alerting system on medication errors.

January 23, 2013

Natali BJ, Varkey AC, Garey KW, et al. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. 2012;70(1).

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Implementation of a commercial pharmacy alert system that focused on identifying errors with high-risk medications reduced the overall number of alerts and improved the timeliness of medication error detection.

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