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Medscape Original Articles
Name Similarities With Toprol Results in Medication Errors
from Medscape Alert, Posted 09/27/05
Discussing Medical Errors With Patients
from WebMD Scientific American, Posted 01/09/2004.
Improving the Quality of Care in Physician Office Practice (IQCPOP)
from Medscape General Medicine, Posted 12/24/2004.
Computerized Prescribing Systems Lower Errors Among Pediatric Patients
from Medscape Medical News, Posted 01/12/2004.
User Fees Do Not Influence Drug Approval Times, Study Finds
from Medscape Medical News, Posted 12/19/2003.
No IT Revolution Yet, But Forces Amassing
from Medscape Money & Medicine, Posted 12/18/2003.
New Law Mandates More Testing of Drug Safety in Children
from Medscape Medical News, Posted 12/15/2003.
JCAHO Protocol to Eliminate Wrong-Site, Wrong-Procedure, Wrong-Patient Surgery: A Newsmaker Interview With Rick Croteau, MD
from Medscape Medical News, Posted 12/05/2003.
Criminalizing Medical Errors: Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?
from Medscape Medical News, Posted 11/13/2003.
Action on Drug Reimportation Moves to States: A Newsmaker Interview With Brian Osberg, Minnesota Department of Human Services
from Medscape Medical News, Posted 10/23/2003.
AAFP Promoting the EMR: A Newsmaker Interview With James C. Martin, MD
from Medscape Medical News, Posted 10/08/2003.
Do Medications Really Expire?
from Medscape General Medicine, Posted 08/21/2003
How to Practice Evidence-Based Medicine
from Medscape General Medicine, Posted 01/30/2003
Side Effects and Therapeutic Effects
from Medscape General Medicine, Posted 01/29/2003
Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics
from Medscape General Medicine, Posted 01/24/2003
California Attacks Nurse Staffing Shortage
from Medscape Money & Medicine
Patient Safety Concerns Could Spur Bar Code Adoption
from Medscape Money & Medicine
Conference Report: Practical Experiences Help Institutions Learn to Avoid Medical Errors
from Medscape Money & Medicine
Conference Report: Effective Practices: Improve Patient Safety Summit 2001
from Medscape Money & Medicine
Setting a Research Agenda on Medical Errors
from Medscape Money & Medicine
Conference Report: Report on the National Summit on Medical Errors and Patient Safety Research
from Medscape Pharmacists
Starting System Change at the Office Practice
from Medscape Med Students
Book Review: Essential Issues for Leaders: Emerging Challenges in Health Care
from Medscape General Medicine
Optimization of Antimicrobial Therapy to Minimize Medication Errors
from Medscape Pharmacists

 
Publishers' Circle
Indiscretions
from Hastings Cent Rep.2005;35:8-9
Informed Consent: Practices and Views of Investigators in a Multinational Clinical Trial
from IRB. 2005;27:13-18.
Patient Safety: Caught in the Public Policy Crossfire
from ASCP. 2004.
A Mediation Skills Model to Manage Disclosure of Errors and Adverse Events to Patients
from Health Aff. 2004;23:23-32.
New JCAHO Medication Management Standards for 2004
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2004;61:1349-1358.
Improving Patient Safety by Repeating (Read-Back) Telephone Reports of Critical Information
from Am J Clin Pathol. 2004;121:801-803.
Clinical Information Management Systems: An Emerging Data Technology for Inpatient Pharmacies
from American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. 2003;61:76-81.
Preventable Adverse Events Decline When Pharmacist Joins General Medicine Rounds
from American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. 2003;60:2282-2283.
At Least 44,000 Patient Deaths This Year: How Do You Measure ROI?
from Journal of Healthcare Information Management. 2003;17:12-13.
Measuring Teamwork and Patient Safety Attitudes of High-Risk Areas
from Nursing Economics. 2003;21:211-218.
Is There a July Phenomenon?
from J Gen Intern Med. 2003;18:639-645.
Detection of Errors by Attending Physicians on a General Medicine Service
from J Gen Intern Med. 2003;18:595-600.
Adulteration of Dietary Supplements
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2003;60:1576-1580.
Nature of Preventable Adverse Drug Events in Hospitals: A Literature Review
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2003;60:1750-1759.
Improving Access to Information: Librarians and Nurses Team Up for Patient Safety
from Nurs Econ. 2003;21:199-201.
A Call to Arms: Why the NHII is Critical to Our Nation's Security
from J Healthc Inf Manag. 2003;17:22-24.
Medical Liability and Patient Safety
from Health Aff. 2003;22:26-36.
Will a Captive Solve Your Malpractice Woes? (Part 2)
from Financial Management Strategies. 2003;2:2-3.
Impact of Emerging Technologies on Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2003;60:1447-1458.
The Difficult Duty of Disclosing Medical Errors
from Contemp Pediatr. 2003;20:51-63.
Assessment of Medication Errors That Involved Drug Allergies at a University Hospital
from Pharmacotherapy. 2003;23.
Classifying Laboratory Incident Reports to Identify Problems That Jeopardize Patient Safety
from Am J Clin Pathol. 2003;120:18-26.
Surgical Adverse Events, Risk Management, and Malpractice Outcome: Morbidity and Mortality Review Is Not Enough
from Ann Surg. 2003;237:844-852.
Facility Designing Around Patient Safety and its Effect on Nursing
from Nurs Econ. 2003;21:143-147.
Bar Coding for Patient Safety
from J Healthc Inf Manag. 2003;17.
A Technological Approach to Enhancing Patient Safety
from J Healthc Inf Manag. 2003;17.
Preventable Drug-Drug Interactions: An Ongoing Problem
from Journal Watch. 2003;2.
Nursing and Pharmacy Agree: It is Time For Change
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2003;60:993.
How Surgical Instruments Get Left Behind
from Clinician Reviews. 2003;13:98-102.
National Observational Study of Prescription Dispensing Accuracy and Safety in 50 Pharmacies
from J Am Pharm Assoc. 2003;43:191-200.
Multifaceted Approach to Reducing Preventable Adverse Drug Events
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2003;60:582-586.
Adverse Events Occur After Hospital Discharge, Study Finds
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2003;60:534.
Attitudes on Disclosure of Medical Errors
from Journal Watch. 2003;2.
The Continuing Challenge of Inappropriate Prescribing in the Elderly: An Update of the Evidence
from J Am Pharm Assoc. 2002;42:847-857.
Seven Reasons Family Doctors Get Sued and How To Reduce Your Risk
from Fam Pract Manag. 2003;10:29-34.
Hospital Disclosure Practices: Results of a National Study
from Health Aff. 2003;22:73-83.
Drug Record Discrepancies in an Outpatient Electronic Medical Record: Frequency, Type, and Potential Impact on Patient Care at a Hemodialysis Center
from Pharmacotherapy. 2003;23:231-239.
Reducing Claims for Prescription Drugs With a High Potential for Abuse
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2003;60:371-374.
Evaluation of Outpatient Adverse Drug Reactions Leading to Hospitalization
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2003;60:253-259.
JCAHO Initiative Seeks to Improve Patient Safety
from Drug Benefit Trends. 2003;15:23-24.
Dosage Conversions as a Potential Cause of Adverse Drug Events
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm 60(2):189-191, 2003
Using Information Technology to Screen for Adverse Events
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2002;59:2317-2319.
Patient Detection of a Drug Dispensing Error by Use of Physician-Provided Drug Samples
from Pharmacotherapy. 2002;22:1642-1643.
Pediatricians Who Prescribe Clotrimazole-Betamethasone Diproprionate (Lotrisone) Often Utilize it in Inappropriate Settings Regardless of Their Knowledge of the Drug's Potency
from Dermatol Online J. 2002;8.
ASHP National Survey of Pharmacy Practice in Hospital Settings: Dispensing and Administration - 2002
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2003;60:52-68.
Effectiveness of a Pharmacist-Acquired Medication History in Promoting Patient Safety
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2002;59:2221-2225.
Pharmacist Participation in Medical Rounds Reduces Medication Errors
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2002;59:2089-2092.
Clinical and Economic Outcomes of Pharmacist Recommendations in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2002;59:2070-2077.
Identifying Clinically Significant Preventable Adverse Drug Events Through a Hospital's Database of Adverse Drug Reaction Reports
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2002;59:1742-1749.
Joint Commission Streamlines Requirements for Patients Safety
from Behavioral Health Accreditations & Accountability Alert. 2002;7:1, 5.
Effects of Current and Future Information Technologies on the Health Care Workforce
from Health Aff. 2002;21:33-41.
Partnering with Nurses to Handle Personnel Shortages
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2002;59:1824, 1826.
Preventable and Non-Preventable Risk Factors for Adverse Drug Events Related to Hospital Admission in the Elderly
from Clin Drug Invest. 2002;22:385-392.
Preventing Errors In The Outpatient Setting: A Tale of Three States
from Health Aff. 2002;21:26-39.
A User's Manual for the IOM's 'Quality Chasm' Report
from Health Aff. 2002;21:80-90.
Physicians' View on Quality of Care: A Five-Country Comparison
from Health Aff. 2001;20:233-243.
Medication Errors in United States Hospitals
from Pharmacotherapy. 2001;21:1023-1036.
Survey of Use of Drug Manufacturers' Patient Assistance Programs by Safety Net Providers
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2002;59:1105-1109.
Naming, Labeling, and Packaging of Pharmaceuticals
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2001;58:3033-3041.
Medication Errors: Technology Coming to the Rescue
from Pharmacy Today. 2002;8:1, 11, 23.
Retrospective Analysis of Mortalities Associated With Medication Errors
from Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2001;58:1824-1829.
NIMH-Led Initiative Looks to Standardize Adverse Event Reporting
from Brown University Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Update. 2001;3:1-4.
Medication Errors in United States Hospitals
from Pharmacotherapy. 2001;1:1023-1036.

 
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