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Hospital information technology systems' impact on nurses and nursing care.

Pediatric and neonatal patients are particularly vulnerable to epinephrine dosing errors.

Making inpatient medication reconciliation patient centered, clinically relevant, and implementable: a consensus statement on key principles and necessary first steps.

Recognition and management of significant drug interactions in HIV patients: challenges in using available data to guide therapy.

Cutting the pediatric insulin error rate.

Incidence of medication errors and adverse drug events in the ICU: a systematic review.

Admitting medication errors: five critical concepts.

Automated detection of harm in healthcare with information technology: a systematic review.

Predictors of incorrect inhalation technique in patients with asthma or COPD: a study using a validated videotaped scoring method.

Injectable paracetamol in children: fatal confusion between milligrams and millilitres.

LA: office nurse errs in ok of strength of Rx: Judgment v. Pharmacist & Pharmacy affirmed! Hollier v. Brookshire Grocery Company, 45,551-CA LACA2, (9/29/2010)-LA.

Identification of medication safety indicators in acute care settings for public reporting in Ontario.

Community pharmacy incident reporting: a new tool for community pharmacies in Canada.

Problem prescriptions in Sweden necessitating contact with the prescriber before dispensing

Cleaning up the discharge process: a number of components--and personnel--are crucial to success.

Medication safety in obstetrics and gynecology.

Involving intensive care unit nurses in a proactive risk assessment of the medication management process.

Failure to administer cefotan: was standing order ambiguous? Tucker v. Women's Care Physicians of Louisville, CA-001929-mr(6/18/2010)-KY.

Prostacyclin administration errors in pulmonary arterial hypertension patients admitted to hospitals in the United States: a national survey.

Reducing errors during patient-controlled analgesia therapy through failure mode and effects analysis.