Newspaper/Magazine Article Think you can't make medication errors? Citation Text: Kromis L. Outpatient Surgery Magazine. March 2013. Copy Citation Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL April 10, 2013 Kromis L. Outpatient Surgery Magazine. March 2013. View more articles from the same authors. This article describes examples of medication safety failures and details methods to help prevent them. Free full text Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL Cite Citation Citation Text: Kromis L. Outpatient Surgery Magazine. March 2013. Copy Citation Related Resources From the Same Author(s) The high cost of retained surgical items. April 26, 2023 Lessons learned from the RaDonda Vaught ruling. March 1, 2023 Anger management courses are a new tool for dealing with out-of-control doctors. March 13, 2013 The Misdiagnosis of Breast Cancer. March 20, 2013 Healing the hospital hierarchy. 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Independent Mortality Review of Cardiac Surgery at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. April 15, 2020
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Crisis recovery in surgery: error management and problem solving in safety-critical situations. September 14, 2022
Improving Diagnosis: Teenage Cancer Trust Report on Improving the Diagnostic Experience of Young People With Cancer. December 4, 2013
Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2013. November 13, 2013
Patient Safety Investigation report into services at University Hospital Galway (UHG) and as reflected in the care provided to Savita Halappanavar. October 23, 2013
Review into the Quality of Care and Treatment Provided by 14 Hospital Trusts in England: Overview Report. August 7, 2013
The Report of the Manitoba Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Inquest: An Inquiry into Twelve Deaths at the Winnipeg Health Sciences Center in 1994. March 6, 2005
The effect of automated alerts on provider ordering behavior in an outpatient setting. September 21, 2005
The Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT) and User's Guide: An Instrument to Assess the Understandability and Actionability of Print and Audiovisual Patient Education Materials. December 11, 2013
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Association of inappropriate outpatient pediatric antibiotic prescriptions with adverse drug events and health care expenditures. June 8, 2022
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CancelRx: a health IT tool to reduce medication discrepancies in the outpatient setting. September 1, 2021
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Are you well positioned to resolve conflicts with the safety of an order? Learning from a physician’s homicide trial and the firing of multiple healthcare workers. June 1, 2022
Survey suggests disrespectful behaviors persist in healthcare: practitioners speak up (yet again) – Parts I and II. March 15, 2022
Pump up the volume: tips for increasing error reporting and decreasing patient harm. September 8, 2021
Start the year off right by preventing these top 10 medication errors and hazards from 2020. February 10, 2021
Survey shows room for improvement with two new ISMP Targeted Medication Safety Best Practices. August 12, 2020
Over-the-top risky: overuse of ADC overrides, removal of drugs without an order, and use of non-profiled cabinets. November 13, 2019
Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being. November 6, 2019
The 2018 Gosport Independent Panel report into deaths at the National Health Service's Gosport War Memorial Hospital. Does the culture of the medical profession influence health outcomes? June 12, 2019
Criminalisation of unintentional error in healthcare in the UK: a perspective from New Zealand. April 24, 2019
Doctors make mistakes. A new documentary explores what happens when they do—and how to fix it. February 6, 2019