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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...
A temporary reduction in pharmacy hours at Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic contributed to med...
Medication, in addition to other treatment options, is an integral part of the care provided to l...
As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...
This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...
Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...
In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...
Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...
The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...
The Problem Medication safety is a strategic imperative in the organization. Each aspect of the ...
The Problem Adverse drug events occur in as many as 10 percent of hospitalized patients, with th...
The ProblemMedication errors in the health care delivery system are the most common type of error...
The Problem Norwalk Hospital was an early developer and user of health information technology. I...
