This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...

January 1st, 2012
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Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

January 1st, 2012
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Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

November 14th, 2011
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The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...

October 1st, 2011
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In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...

September 30th, 2011
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Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...

August 1st, 2011
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Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

July 29th, 2011
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Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharma...

July 1st, 2011
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Front-line nurses led the way in a medication safety initiative at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, S...

May 16th, 2011
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Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...

April 25th, 2011
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March 1st, 2011
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When Olean (NY) General Hospital decided to improve medication management by using technology, it...

December 13th, 2010
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Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...

September 13th, 2010
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When Poudre Valley Health System, based in Fort Collins, Colo., started using bedside medication ...

August 2nd, 2010
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Reducing patient readmissions is both a critical patient safety need and a growing financial conc...

April 5th, 2010
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The Problem Vanderbilt's project didn't address a problem so much as it focused on a goal: to be...

October 8th, 2009
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The Problem More than one million serious medication errors occur each year in U.S. hospitals. T...

October 8th, 2009
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As a result of care coordination activities with Medicare patients, the opportunity to improve pa...

September 26th, 2009
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The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...

August 5th, 2009
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The Problem Medication safety is a strategic imperative in the organization. Each aspect of the ...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem Hazleton General Hospital officials were unhappy with their performance on a number ...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem Adverse drug events occur in as many as 10 percent of hospitalized patients, with th...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 mil...

August 1st, 2009
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The ProblemMedication errors in the health care delivery system are the most common type of error...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem Bronson's patient safety committee appointed a task force to look at medication erro...

July 1st, 2009
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St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn., has taken a lead role in creating the Hope Dis...

January 22nd, 2009
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