Using an electronic medication checklist to gain patient medication histories significantly reduces errors compared with a paper-based checklist, a recent study found. The study, conducted last ...

A small study conducted at a suburban Central Texas hospital suggests that using an electronic medication checklist at admission can reduce medication errors for elderly patients taking multiple ...

Medication errors refer to mistakes in prescribing and dispensing medications. These errors injure hundreds of thousands of people every year in the U.S.

The “Make Notes & Take Notes” form includes a checklist of basic information patients should ask their physician about, including symptoms and current prescriptions. The checklist also includes room ...

The non-profit California Healthcare Foundation offers a toolkit with 10 tools for addressing medication errors. The entire toolkit includes a four-step framework to help hospitals implement the right ...

On April 17, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices added more recommendations to its list of medical abbreviations that should never be used. The organization’s List of Error-Prone ...

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices on Jan. 27 released its list of the top 10 medication errors from 2020, selecting errors and hazards that have not only been consistently reported, but ...

Each year, approximately 300,000 medication errors are reported annually to poison control centers in the United States; 90% of these errors occur at home.

Since the new discharge checklist was established, the completion rate for medication reconciliation at Cleveland Clinic's main campus has increased from about 88.0% to 98.7%, and the completion ...

The new entries were chosen on the basis of a number of factors, including ISMP's analysis of recent medication mishap reports that were submitted to it. The ISMP list now includes about 528 drug ...

CT Viewpoints Preventing medication errors for our elderly in Connecticut with technology by Allyson Ruganis August 17, 2018 @ 11:00 am ...

CPZ Compazine (prochlorperazine) Mistaken as chlorproMAZINE Use complete drug name DTO diluted tincture of opium, or deodorized tincture of opium (Paregoric) Mistaken as tincture of opium Use ...