Patient safety in Europe: medication errors and hospital-acquired infections [PDF]
, 2008 The Report was commissioned by the European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN) in November 2007 in order to support its policy statements on Patient Safety (June 2004).
Smith, L.N. +7 more
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Latent preconditions of medication administration errors: development of a proactive error-management tool [PDF]
, 2008 latrogenic injury has been found to occur in around 10% of UK hospital admissions, equating to the harm of approximately 850,000 patients each year.
Carruthers, Samantha Jane
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A review of interventions used to improve adherence with medication in older [PDF]
, 2009 Background: Medication mismanagement is a continuous problem particularly in older people. Numerous interventions have been developed and tested in an attempt to improve adherence with medication in this client group.
Banning, M
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Effectiveness of the automated drug dispensing system: systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2020 Objectives: to compare the effectiveness of the decentralized automated drug dispensing system with pockets. Methods: an effectiveness study based on a systematic review guided by the question: for patients admitted to hospital units, is the use of ...
Márglory Fraga de Carvalho +5 more
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Integrating medical images into hospital information systems [PDF]
Journal of Digital Imaging, 1991 The effective delivery of health care has become increasingly dependent on a wide range of medical data that includes a variety of images. Manual and computer-based medical records ordinarily do not contain image data, leaving the physician to deal with a fragmented patient record widely scattered throughout the hospital.
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The Danish National Hospital Medication Register: A Resource for Pharmacoepidemiology [PDF]
Clinical EpidemiologyOscar Rosenkrantz,1,2 Jannik Wheler,1 Mats Christian Westphal Thrane,3 Lars Pedersen,1 Henrik Toft Sørensen1 1Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Center for Population Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital and Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark ...
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Evaluation of Medication Error Incident Reports at a Tertiary Care Hospital
Pharmacy, 2020 Background: Medications errors (MEs) have been a major concern of healthcare systems worldwide. Voluntary-based incident reporting is the mainstay system to detect such events in many institutions.
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One-Stop Dispensing: Hospital Costs and Patient Perspectives on Self-Management of Medication
Pharmacy, 2018 (1) Objective: To assess hospital medication costs and staff time between One-Stop Dispensing (OSD) and the Traditional Medication System (TMS), and to evaluate patient perspectives on OSD.
Morten Baltzer Houlind +7 more
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The pharmacist facing the logistics of safely dispensing, storing and preserving drugs in healthcare units [PDF]
Farmacia Hospitalaria, 2020 In response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the Hospital Pharmacy Services have quickly adapted to respond to a critical situation characterized by the constant and continuous admission of patients with severe pneumonia who needed treatment, requiring a ...
Maria Josep Cabañas +1 more
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023 Many medication errors in the hospital setting are due to manual, error-prone processes in the medication management system. Closed-loop Electronic Medication Management Systems (EMMSs) use technology to prevent medication errors by replacing manual ...
Susan B. Shermock +2 more
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