is focusing on medication safety by offering a Medication Safety Checklist and urging patients to give their medicine cabinets a check-up during the annual "Know What's In Your Medicine Cabinet ...

The checklist enables doctors to quickly determine ... align with previous studies highlighting the need for better medication safety. "We hope our work can contribute to safer and more effective ...

Since the new discharge checklist was established, the completion rate for medication reconciliation ... In March, the Ohio Patient Safety Institute awarded Cleveland Clinic with the Acute Care ...

The PCA Safety Checklist focuses on the top three risks of PCA pump errors ... A patient can potentially receive too much medication. 2. Injury and death can occur even if there are no errors with the ...

A new safety checklist program that virtually eliminated ... plastic tubes used regularly for patients in ICUs to administer medication or fluids, obtain blood for tests, and directly gauge ...

He has developed a Checklist of questions ... approved indication for this particular medication? • Is there well documented research on efficacy and safety with children of the same age ...

Adverse events in patients who have undergone surgery constitute a large proportion of iatrogenic illnesses. Most surgical safety interventions have focused on the operating room. Since more than ...

The use of prescription medication during pregnancy and while ... The first relates to designing studies to collect safety data on pregnancy and infant outcomes, and the second relates to ...