This website for independent community pharmacy owners across the United Kingdom features both free and members-only guidance, reporting platforms, and document templates to support patient safety. It includes reporting tools and incident analysis reports for providers in England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Topics covered in the communications include look-alike and sound-alike drugs, patient safety audits, and safe dispensing of liquid medications.
Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; October 2008.
This AHRQ grantee announcement lists 13 projects funded to demonstrate effective strategies in identifying and addressing risks and in improving processes in ambulatory care.
Kwan Y, Fernandes OA, Nagge JJ, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2007;167:1034-40.
The investigators evaluated an intervention of pharmacist medication assessments and a postoperative medication order form and found that the intervention minimized postoperative medication discrepancies.
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