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Mind the gap! Risk factors for poor continuity of care of TB patients discharged from a hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa.

PLoS ONE, 2018
BackgroundTB patients discharged from hospitals in South Africa experience poor continuity of care, failing to continue TB treatment at other levels of care.
Lilian Dudley, Fidele Mukinda, Robin Dyers, Frederick Marais, Dagmar Sissolak   +4 more
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Toward Interoperable Digital Medication Records on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources: Development and Technical Validation of a Minimal Core Dataset

JMIR Medical Informatics
BackgroundMedication errors represent a widespread, hazardous, and costly challenge in health care settings. The lack of interoperable medication data within and across hospitals not only creates an administrative burden through ...
Eduardo Salgado-Baez, Raphael Heidepriem, Renate Delucchi Danhier, Eugenia Rinaldi, Vishnu Ravi, Akira-Sebastian Poncette, Iris Dahlhaus, Daniel Fürstenau, Felix Balzer, Sylvia Thun, Julian Sass   +10 more
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Controlling errors in unidosis carts

NURE Investigación, 2010
Objective: To identify errors in the unidosis system carts. Method: For two months, the Pharmacy Service controlled medication either returned or missing from the unidosis carts both in the pharmacy and in the wards.
Inmaculada Díaz Fernández, Clara Fernández-Shaw Toda, David García Marco   +2 more
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Effect of improvement measures in reducing interruptions in a Japanese hospital pharmacy using a synthetic approach based on resilience engineering and systems thinking

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Workflow interruptions in pharmacies contribute to dispensing errors, a high-priority issue in patient safety, but have rarely been studied from a systemic perspective partly because of the limitations of the conventional reductionistic ...
Takahiro Kojima, Noriyasu Kinoshita, Harumi Kitamura, Koji Tanaka, Ayumi Tokunaga, Satoshi Nakagawa, Takeru Abe, Kazue Nakajima   +7 more
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A systems intervention for improving medical-school-hospital interrelationships

Academic Medicine, 1978
The large number of affiliations between medical schools and hospitals resulting from recently increased size of schools has typically been accompanied by both school-hospital and hospital-hospital interrelationship problems involving faculty and administrative personnel in all departments and at all levels.
N S, Stearns, T A, Bergan, E B, Roberts, L F, Cavazos   +3 more
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PE - 71 Automation In Medication Management: Supporting Pharmacists' Engagement In Clinical Activities

Jornal de Assistência Farmacêutica e Farmacoeconomia
Introdução: Patient safety and cost-effectiveness are fundamental in healthcare, and optimizing the medication-use process to ensure safety, efficacy, and appropriateness of pharmacotherapy has become critical.
Ezequielson Miqueias da Silva Barros, Adson Julliano Ferreira Miranda da Silva, Mateus Manoel Moura da Silva, Maria Raphaela de Oliveira Machado, Bruna Maria da Silva Messias, Carla Fernanda da Silva, Leticia Liliane da Silva Assis, João Gomes Pontes Neto   +7 more
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Information system linking a medical school with practitioners and hospitals

Academic Medicine, 1987
A recently established medical information network uses computers and telephone lines to link rural Georgia medical practitioners, Georgia hospitals, and the Mercer University School of Medicine (MUSM) in Macon, Georgia. This network, the Georgia Interactive Network for Medical Information (GaIN), provides a service and educational support system for ...
J A, Rankin, J C, Williams, D J, Mishelevich   +2 more
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Application of a human factors approach to investigate the hospital to home transition for patients with multiple long-term conditions

Human Factors in Healthcare
Patients with multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs) can encounter difficulties in medication management after hospital discharge. This challenge is exacerbated by the inadequate communication between healthcare sectors.
Mikas Glatkauskas, Malin O. Syversen, Marianne Lea, Michael Scott, Karin Svensberg, Berit G. Denstad, Torunn Wibe, Liv Mathiesen   +7 more
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UNIFYING THE MEDICAL PROFILES OF HOSPITAL SYSTEM IN SAUDI ARABIA Running Title: Unifying medical profiles of hospital system

, 2022
Background: Several systems with improved decision-making, communication, and data management were deployed across various healthcare institutions in the previous time for the improvement in communication technologies, the field of interoperability, and health data sharing.
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Medication errors and in-patient computerized prescribing system

Journal of Health Science and Medical Research (JHSMR), 2006
Songklanagarind Hospital has operated an in-patient computerized prescribing system since April 2004, and currently this prescribing system is used instead of handwritten prescription in all wards in the hospital.
A Nualsri
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