Since 1999 when the Institute of Medicine reported that approximately 7000 deaths occurred annually as a direct result of medication errors, health care professionals have been identifying and ...

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices has partnered with the American Hospital Association and Health Research & Educational Trust to launch the 2011 Medication Safety Self Assessment for ...

Medication assessment, which includes both medication reconciliation and a comprehensive medication review, is therefore critical to geriatric functional assessment and patient safety. Maintaining ...

In patients with feeding tubes, assessment of drug dosage forms by a pharmacist would be beneficial for appropriate administration and to prevent drug interactions. You have full access to this ...

Key vulnerabilities include patient education about drug handling and adverse effects ... we conducted five failure mode and effects analyses (FMEAs), a form of proactive risk assessment. Working with ...

such as certain forms of lung cancer. "Above all, we see great potential in this method for improving the assessment of resistance and simplifying the choice of drugs when new medications are ...

discontinuation of unnecessary and/or inappropriate medications, recommendation of alternatives) were part of the comprehensive assessment and were forwarded to the primary oncologist and/or medical ...

The 2000 and 2004 assessments have helped hospitals improve medication safety, according to the release. The AHA encourages all hospitals to participate. The deadline for submissions is Aug. 31, 2011.