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  1. Organizational culture and its implications for infection prevention and control in healthcare institutions. | PSNet

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    October 06, 2010 - From the Same Author(s) Computerized physician order entry of injectable antineoplastic drugs … November 20, 2015 Impact of interactions between drugs and laboratory test results on

  2. Medication errors in intravenous drug preparation and administration: a multicentre audit in the UK, Germany and France. | PSNet

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    December 04, 2015 - December 4, 2015 Prospective pilot intervention study to prevent medication errors in drugs … May 7, 2018 Look alike/sound alike drugs: a literature review on causes and solutions

  3. Chemotherapeutic errors in hospitalised cancer patients: attributable damage and extra costs. | PSNet

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    May 04, 2012 - event nonrecognition in emergency departments: an exploratory study on factors related to patients and drugs … May 1, 2013 Characteristics of medication errors with parenteral cytotoxic drugs

  4. Improving cancer patient care with combined medication error reviews and morbidity and mortality conferences. | PSNet

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    February 01, 2012 - event nonrecognition in emergency departments: an exploratory study on factors related to patients and drugs … February 15, 2011 Computerized physician order entry of injectable antineoplastic drugs

  5. Under-mined. | PSNet

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    October 27, 2010 - February 14, 2024 Initiative to deprescribe high-risk drugs for older adults presenting … December 18, 2013 Audit of missed or delayed antimicrobial drugs.

  6. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    April 03, 2024 - /not-again https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/nearly-all-thirty-most-frequently-used-emergency-department-drugs-experienced-shortages

  7. Survey of the national drug shortage effect on anesthesia and patient safety: a patient perspective. | PSNet

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    May 23, 2018 - Intraoperative handoffs among anesthesia providers increase the incidence of documentation errors for controlled drugs … December 19, 2018 Shortage of perioperative drugs: implications for anesthesia practice

  8. Clinical practice guideline: safe medication use in the ICU. | PSNet

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    February 19, 2014 - December 14, 2010 Adverse-drug-event rates for high-cost and high-use drugs in the intensive … October 26, 2010 Adverse events associated with sedatives, analgesics, and other drugs

  9. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    May 06, 2020 - effect-illness-severity-and-comorbidity-patient-safety-and-adverse-events https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/spikes-demand-coronavirus-patients-are-creating-shortages-asthma-drugs-and-sedatives

  10. Recommendations to improve the usability of drug–drug interaction clinical decision support alerts. | PSNet

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    February 14, 2024 - April 24, 2018 Impact of interactions between drugs and laboratory test results on diagnostic

  11. Two Pills, Same Drug | PSNet

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    May 27, 2011 - Ordering abacavir not by itself but along with other drugs as a compound may have been a standard or … Templates, unlike free-form orders, can contain printed information about components in compound drugs … to the principles of human-computer interaction.( 11 ) Using CPOE systems is the safest way to order drugs … &M Cases Surprise Wire August 21, 2005 Cardiovascular drugs … Hospitals Physicians Pharmacists Ordering/Prescribing Errors Specific to High-Risk Drugs

  12. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    May 25, 2022 - Drugs Aging. 2022;39(3):199-207. doi:10.1007/s40266-022-00929-y.

  13. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    October 01, 2018 - we're able to maybe not cure but suppress leukemia with oral therapies, and there are so many more drugs … Clinical efforts should be mandated for high-alert drugs. … The most common drugs are loaded into a dispensing machine, but it's automated and it puts a label on … We looked specifically at high-alert drugs. … For example, if your patient has diabetes it gives you a list of drugs that would be appropriate for

  14. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    November 17, 2021 - psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/using-drug-knowledgebase-information-distinguish-between-look-alike-sound-alike-drugs

  15. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    June 22, 2022 - Drugs Aging. 2022;39(5):333-353. doi:10.1007/s40266-022-00940-3.

  16. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    April 06, 2022 - diversion-threat-patient-safety-adopting-best-practices https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/some-health-workers-suffering-addiction-steal-drugs-meant-patients

  17. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    June 19, 2019 - new-evidence-stemming-low-value-prescribing https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/polypharmacy-elderly-when-good-drugs-lead-bad-outcomes-teachable-moment

  18. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

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    April 22, 2023 - also provide education to highlight the importance of appropriate disposal of unused prescription drugs

  19. Multiple Levels Involved in Prescribing the Wrong Medication | PSNet

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    December 23, 2020 - Multiple interventions have been developed to prevent mistakes caused by LASA drugs. … Many EHR systems integrate “tall man” lettering into the way LASA drugs appear to emphasize name differences … 6  As such, the Joint Commission recommends healthcare organizations not only create a list of LASA drugs … The basics of prescribing the drugs pertinent to this case should have tipped off the pharmacist.  … Look alike/sound alike drugs: a literature review on causes and solutions.

  20. Impact of incorporating pharmacy claims data into electronic medication reconciliation. | PSNet

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    September 01, 2016 - December 21, 2017 Preventability of adverse drug events involving multiple drugs using … Discrepancies between in-home interviews and electronic medical records on regularly used drugs
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