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The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...
This project has decreased cycle time for medication reconciliation at time of admission and for ...
Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...
Administration of medications is one of the most error-prone stages in the medication use process...
New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...
The project improved the pharmacy to hospital floor Rx process to decrease returns, optimize auto...
Patient safety is the number one priority at this facility. After discussing medication errors at...
An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...
The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...
The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...
Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...
Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...
After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...
The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...
Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...
A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...
Pennsylvania facilities submitted 879 medication error reports from July 1, 2004, through January...
At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
Strong Memorial Hospital adopted barcode medication administration technology to reduce the incid...
