The 2012 New England Compounding Center tragedy and ongoing drug shortages have caused a dramatic...

September 16th, 2016
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Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...

September 16th, 2016
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Administration of medications is one of the most error-prone stages in the medication use process...

September 16th, 2016
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A key component to making patient care safer is to track your data and progress towards improveme...

April 22nd, 2016
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The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) developed this compendium to link patient and fami...

January 4th, 2016
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The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

October 6th, 2015
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The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

July 1st, 2015
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Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...

July 11th, 2014
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The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

March 12th, 2013
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At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

June 1st, 2012
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The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

February 1st, 2012
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Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

February 1st, 2012
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North Bronx Healthcare Network devised a process to analyze its departmental risk management data...

February 1st, 2012
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Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...

February 1st, 2012
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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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The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...

October 1st, 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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The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...

August 5th, 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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