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201. Drug-drug interactions and actual harm to hospitalized patients: a multicentre study examining the prevalence pre- and post-electronic medication system implementation. | PSNet
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     August 26, 2020 - frequency of pDDI and cDDI orders did not differ between timeframes, although the likelihood of both drugs … Given the low prevalence of actual harm and the decreased likelihood of co-administration of drugs even

202. Timing and interventions of emergency teams during the MERIT study. | PSNet
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     June 02, 2010 - Australian study required critical care interventions such as airway management or use of inotropic drugs … January 15, 2009 Impact of interactions between drugs and laboratory test results on

203. Guided prescription of psychotropic medications for geriatric inpatients. | PSNet
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     February 04, 2018 - Results indicate increased prescription of recommended doses, decreased prescription of nonrecommended drugs … May 27, 2011 Preventability of adverse drug events involving multiple drugs using publicly

204. Improving self-reporting of adverse drug events in a West Virginia hospital. | PSNet
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     March 10, 2011 - determined that incident reports were made for less than 4% of adverse drug events (ADEs) involving rescue drugs … October 1, 2014 Look alike/sound alike drugs: a literature review on causes and solutions

205. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2003 - The packages of both drugs, made by the same manufacturer, were almost identical. … However, when one realizes that the brand name of digoxin is Lanoxin®, and that in this case both drugs … Both are drugs that would be stocked on a typical neonatal unit, and the doses used are similar. … Packaging and look-alike/sound-alike drugs are thought to be important contributing factors. … The effects of a patients’ own drugs scheme on the incidence and severity of medication administration

206. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     March 23, 2012 - The authors provide a set of principles that urge clinicians to: think beyond drugs, practice more strategic … prescribing, maintain heightened awareness about side effects, exercise skepticism about new drugs,

207. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     June 28, 2023 - Some drugs are very irritating to the endothelium and cause thrombosis and necrosis, while others are … Approaches to Improving Patient Safety Avoid injecting drugs and air bubbles into arterial lines All … who administer medications must be aware of the potential for serious thrombotic complications if drugs … This color coding was put in place because unintended IV infusion of local anesthetic drugs intended … Inadvertent epidural injection of drugs for intravenous use. A review.

208. Medication prescribing errors involving the route of administration. | PSNet
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     January 12, 2011 - involving prescribing for the wrong route (eg, orally instead of intravenously), and cardiovascular drugs … &M Cases Surprise Wire August 21, 2005 Cardiovascular drugs

209. FDA Drug Safety Communication: FDA warns about prescribing and dispensing errors resulting from brand name confusion with antidepressant Brintellix (vortioxetine) and antiplatelet Brilinta (ticagrelor). | PSNet
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     August 05, 2020 - errors due to similarity between two proprietary names, this announcement describes near misses with the drugs … February 17, 2021 Meitheal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. issues voluntary nationwide recall of

210. Drug shortages. | PSNet
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     February 22, 2023 - December 14, 2022 Nearly all thirty most frequently used emergency department drugs experienced

211. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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     September 29, 2017 - This study targeted prescribing for drugs classified as requiring a black box warning by implementing … Certain specific alerts, such as warning against prescribing drugs contraindicated in pregnancy or those

212. Medication safety in the ambulatory chemotherapy setting. | PSNet
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     February 18, 2011 - Chemotherapeutic drugs share the characteristic of providing life-saving benefits at the expense of substantial … May 19, 2014 Characteristics of medication errors with parenteral cytotoxic drugs.

213. Laboratory safety monitoring of chronic medications in ambulatory care settings. | PSNet
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     January 06, 2017 - Using claims data from two large health plans, the investigators selected 11 drugs and their recommended … Discussion includes detailed presentation of the potential error rates and how they differed among specific drugs

214. Impact of implementing alerts about medication black-box warnings in electronic health records. | PSNet
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     July 10, 2008 - This study targeted prescribing for drugs classified as requiring a black box warning by implementing … Certain specific alerts, such as warning against prescribing drugs contraindicated in pregnancy or those

215. Identifying high-risk medication: a systematic literature review. | PSNet
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     June 27, 2011 - associated with the most severe medication errors : methotrexate, warfarin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs … Hospitals Health Care Providers Quality and Safety Professionals Medicine Specific to High-Risk Drugs

216. Principles of conservative prescribing. | PSNet
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     April 22, 2017 - The authors provide a set of principles that urge clinicians to: think beyond drugs, practice more strategic … prescribing, maintain heightened awareness about side effects, exercise skepticism about new drugs,

217. Patient Allergies and Electronic Health Records | PSNet
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     August 21, 2005 - Doyle, MBBS Adverse reactions to drugs (including contrast media) occur frequently and were responsible … hospital annually between 1996 and 2000 (Hospital Episode Statistics) in the United Kingdom (UK).( 1 ) All drugs … suspected drug allergy, the following should be documented: generic and proprietary name of the drug or drugs … taken, or number of days on the drug before onset of the reaction; route of administration; and which drugs … Patients should expect and anticipate that both adverse drug reactions and allergies to drugs are appropriately

218. Special report: COVID deepens the other opioid crisis - a shortage of hospital painkillers. | PSNet
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     March 31, 2021 - vulnerable group we must not leave behind in our response to COVID-19: people who are dependent on illicit drugs … 6, 2020 Spikes in demand from coronavirus patients are creating shortages of asthma drugs

219. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
     psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49868/psn-pdf
     July 02, 2019 - The FDA also has a website that lists all current REMS drugs, and FDA-approved prescribing information … https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/REMS/default.htm https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/REMS/ucm592662 … .htm https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/rems/index.cfm https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ … Assessment Planning Does the hospital have a formulary restriction for clozapine, or other similar REMS drugs

220. Pediatric perioperative medication errors. | PSNet
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     July 10, 2024 - 2021 Multimodal system designed to reduce errors in recording and administration of drugs … About The Topic Operating Room Anesthesiology Pediatric Surgery Specific to High-Risk Drugs