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 year ...

This article is written by Mayo Clinic Staff. Medication errors refer to mistakes in prescribing, dispensing and giving medications. They injure hundreds of thousands of people every year in the ...

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An effective hospital discharge process created by Cleveland Clinic is pivotal in the handoff of patients to postacute-care providers. Hospital discharge is a complex process involving the primary ...

One of the basic assumptions about health care is that patients take medications to aid care. However, there may be times when medication does not aid care, but rather, jeopardizes patient safety.

Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital introduced the tool into the electronic health record from November 2011 to June 2012. The tool presents a split-screen display, with pre-admission ...

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 drugs ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Half of all heart patients made at least one medication-related mistake after leaving the hospital, and guidance from a pharmacist didn't seem to reduce those errors, in a ...

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 Abbreviations ...