Newspaper/Magazine Article Not what the doctor ordered. Citation Text: Trebilcock B. Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL July 13, 2005 Trebilcock B. View more articles from the same authors. This article reports on the types of errors that occur in community pharmacies and provides recommendations for consumers to reduce their risk. Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL Cite Citation Citation Text: Trebilcock B. Copy Citation Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Review into the Quality of Care and Treatment Provided by 14 Hospital Trusts in England: Overview Report. August 7, 2013 Medical errors leave devastating impact on families, professionals. May 15, 2013 Lessons from America's safest hospitals. April 17, 2013 Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that? February 8, 2012 Is a tired doctor a safe doctor? November 12, 2014 ECRI out with 10 deadly healthcare technology hazards for 2017. 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Review into the Quality of Care and Treatment Provided by 14 Hospital Trusts in England: Overview Report. August 7, 2013
First, protect the patient from harm: applying adult learning principles to patient safety. August 18, 2010
External Inquiry into the adverse incident that occurred at Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, 4th January 2001. April 26, 2006
High Reliability for a Highly Unreliable World: Preparing for Code Blue Through Daily Operations in Healthcare. May 16, 2018
Wounded care: failure at one Indian Health Service hospital reveals a system in crisis. December 14, 2016
Influencing the Quality, Risk and Safety Movement in Healthcare: In Conversation with International Leaders. November 4, 2015
Challenges ahead in technology training: a report on the training initiative of the Committee on Technology. October 11, 2006
Capturing more emergency department errors via an anonymous web-based reporting system. September 21, 2005
Engineering Patient Safety in Radiation Oncology: University of North Carolina's Pursuit for High Reliability and Value Creation. May 6, 2015
The safety journal: lessons learned with an error reporting tool to stimulate systems thinking. September 12, 2007
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Partnering with Patients and Families to Design a Patient- and Family-Centered Health Care System: Recommendations and Promising Practices. June 4, 2008
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Incorporating Health Information Technology Into Workflow Redesign: Request for Information Summary Report. November 17, 2010
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Patient Safety Innovations Assessing the impact of virtual medication history technicians on medication reconciliation discrepancies. April 7, 2022
Improving shared situation awareness for high-risk therapies in hospitalized children. January 19, 2022
Potentially inappropriate prescribing and its associations with health-related and system-related outcomes in hospitalised older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. January 19, 2022
Assessing the impact of virtual medication history technicians on medication reconciliation discrepancies. December 1, 2021
Assessment of bias in patient safety reporting systems categorized by physician gender, race and ethnicity, and faculty rank: a qualitative study. June 1, 2022
Association of clinician diagnostic performance with machine learning–based decision support systems: a systematic review. April 14, 2021
Use of temporary nurses and nurse and patient safety outcomes in acute care hospital units. October 6, 2010
Patient perceptions of hospital experiences: implications for innovations in patient safety. March 16, 2022
Nursing guidelines for comprehensive harm prevention strategies for adult patients in acute hospitals: an integrative review and synthesis. February 23, 2022
The Top Six: standardized safety practices in U.S. Army Medical Department treatment facilities worldwide. February 23, 2022
Mapping the resilience performance of community pharmacy to maintain patient safety during the Covid-19 pandemic. February 16, 2022
Impact of unacceptable behaviour between healthcare workers on clinical performance and patient outcomes: a systematic review. February 16, 2022
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Concordance with urgent referral guidelines in patients presenting with any of six ‘alarm’ features of possible cancer: a retrospective cohort study using linked primary care records. August 10, 2022
Nurses' harm prevention practices during admission of an older person to the hospital: a multi-method qualitative study. August 10, 2022
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Outsourcing health-care services to the private sector and treatable mortality rates in England, 2013-20: an observational study of NHS privatisation. July 20, 2022
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California pharmacies are making millions of mistakes. They’re fighting to keep that secret. September 20, 2023
The state of health, burnout, healthy behaviors, workplace wellness support, and concerns of medication errors in pharmacists during the COVID-19 pandemic. August 23, 2023
Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) Programs and Medication Safety: Parts I and II. August 9, 2023
Perceived discrimination in the community pharmacy: a cross-sectional, national survey of adults. May 10, 2023
The impact of electronic communication of medication discontinuation (CancelRx) on medication safety: a pilot study. October 5, 2022
The source of purchased medications and its impact on medication mistakes and hospitalizations. March 16, 2022
Electronic health record interoperability-why electronically discontinued medications are still dispensed. September 22, 2021
CancelRx: a health IT tool to reduce medication discrepancies in the outpatient setting. September 1, 2021
A systematic review of the effect of telepharmacy services in the community pharmacy setting on care quality and patient safety. June 30, 2021
Any new process poses a risk for errors: learning from 4 months of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccinations. May 12, 2021
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