Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...

September 16th, 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 Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...

July 21st, 2015

Doctors Hospital of Manteca/Tenet HealthcareManteca, CABeds: 73 The ProblemRealizing high-alert ...

July 17th, 2013
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After several monthly reviews of reported adverse drug events, hypoglycemia ranked highest for th...

March 12th, 2013
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Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

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

February 1st, 2012
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Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...

February 1st, 2012
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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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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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As a result of care coordination activities with Medicare patients, the opportunity to improve pa...

September 26th, 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 ProblemMedication errors in the health care delivery system are the most common type of error...

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 Problem Bronson's patient safety committee appointed a task force to look at medication erro...

July 1st, 2009
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