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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
The 2012 New England Compounding Center tragedy and ongoing drug shortages have caused a dramatic...
Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...
Administration of medications is one of the most error-prone stages in the medication use process...
Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...
The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...
At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...
North Bronx Healthcare Network devised a process to analyze its departmental risk management data...
Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...
The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...
The Problem Adverse drug events occur in as many as 10 percent of hospitalized patients, with th...