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The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...
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...
New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...
The project improved the pharmacy to hospital floor Rx process to decrease returns, optimize auto...
An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...
The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...
The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...
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...
A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...
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...
This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...
Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...
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...
