Article: Preventing medication errors in hospitals through a systems approach and technological innovation: a prescription for 2010.

Article: Hospital Increases Prevention of Medication Errors ...
PR Newswire;  November 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... replenishment system that integrates with the computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system. These new technologies reduce medical errors, save lives, and also provide considerable savings to the hospital. The interventions also resulted in a 500 percent ...

Article: Efforts Launched to Address Medical Errors.
Nursing Economics;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... hospitals each year as the result of medical errors. This would make medical errors the eighth leading cause of death ... Approximately 7,000 people per year die from medication errors. Medical errors can involve medicines, surgery, diagnosis ...

Article: Disclosure of medical errors to ...
MedSurg Nursing;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... patients wish to learn about medical errors regardless of the extent ... equipment failures, and medication errors. Medical errors concern patients and health ... each year as a result of medical errors (IOM, 1999). This figure ...

Article: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY KIM BELSHÉ ISSUES STATEMENT ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 6, 2007 ;     532 words ... ... potential costs of medication errors underscores the need for reducing medication errors as called for ... to reduce all medical errors and promote patient ... prevent not only medication errors, but medical errors as well." The ...

Article: I.T. Helps Steer Caregivers from Danger of Medical ...
Health Data Management;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... have focused on medication errors, a subset of medical errors. The IOM report estimated that medication errors kill more than ... Efforts to prevent medication errors, however, can ... larger problem of medical errors, which includes ...

Article: Strategies to reduce medication errors in older ...
Australian Nursing Journal;  September 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... United States (US) medication errors represented 20% of medical errors despite recent efforts ... cost of preventable medication errors in the US alone between ... Roughead et al 1998). As medication errors can occur at all stages ...

Article: Technology is the right prescription for minimizing ...
Managed Healthcare Executive;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... attributed to medication errors. The report estimates that medical errors cost the healthcare ... could lessen medication errors. "The report ... are reducing medical errors. A CPOE implemented ... of 85% of medication errors because of ...