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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: patients + safer + pharmacies  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)

Minor Ailments Service Halted
4ni.co.uk, UK -
The NI Minor Ailment Service was to provide patient self-care arrangements through access to a safe and high quality pharmaceutical service, and to utilise ...
SF pushes legislation to promote good health
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Aug 4, 2008
So it goes with eliminating cigarettes from pharmacies or labeling how many calories are in a Big Mac. "We're not dictating individual behavior - it isn't a ...
Ministerial Matters
Pharmacy in Focus, UK - Aug 4, 2008
It is in no one?s interest to offer services that cannot be provided to patients in a safe and effective manner. I am determined to work with the profession ...
Spreading the message about sexual health
WalesOnline, United Kingdom - Aug 3, 2008
There are many places where people can buy condoms, but pharmacies are the best placed outlets to offer safe sex advice and counselling alongside sales. ...

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Wise To Use Pharmacy Walk-In Clinics?
CBS News, NY - Aug 2, 2008
IS IT SAFE TO USE A CLINIC THAT MIGHT BE MANNED BY A NURSE PRACTITIONER RATHER THAN A DOCTOR? That depends in large part on what you're going for. ...
Ginseng Safe for Short-Term Pediatric Use
MedPage Today, NJ -
4 -- Ginseng appears safe for treating children with cold and flu symptoms, researchers here found. Explain to interested patients that the study looked ...
Two Physicians Plead Guilty in International Internet Pharmacy ...
FOXBusiness - Aug 2, 2008
"The illegal sale of pharmaceuticals over the Internet poses a serious threat to Americans who mistakenly assume these substances are safe. ...
Medical Marijuana
Rocklin and Roseville Today, CA - Aug 4, 2008
A: I predict that this political foolishness will resolve once cannabis medications are available in the pharmacy. In Canada, people can get cannabis in the ...
Columbus hospital reopens flood-damaged ER
Indianapolis Business Journal, IN -
"We've undergone a rigorous process to ensure that the building is safe and meets all regulatory requirements to provide high-quality patient care," said ...
Trials and Medications
RedOrbit, TX - Aug 4, 2008
In this issue, BusinessWest takes an indepth look at the process of taking a new drug from the laboratory to the corner pharmacy. ...
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[BOOK] To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System -
LT Kohn, J Corrigan, MS Donaldson - 2000 - books.google.com
... care setting, including day-surgery and outpatient clinics, retail pharmacies, nurs
-ing homes ... ment on the ultimate goal of making care safer for patients. ...

[CITATION] Safe but Sound: Patient Safety Meets Evidence-Based Medicine -
KG Shojania, BW Duncan, KM McDonald, RM Wachter - JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 2002 - JAMA
... example, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices ... enough to meet their patients'
needs, and ... became de facto satellite pharmacies, informally distributing ...

[PDF] Making health care safer: a critical analysis of patient safety practices -
KG Shojania, BW Duncan, KM McDonald, RM Wachter - Evid Rep Technol Assess (Summ), 2001 - ahrq.gov
... Between Inpatient and Outpatient Pharmacies..471 Subchapter 42.2. ... with significant
input from patient safety experts ... AHRQ, and the NQF Safe Practices Committee ...

ASHP national survey of pharmacy practice in hospital settings: Dispensing and administration-2005. -
CA PEDERSEN, PJ SCHNEIDER, DJ SCHECKELHOFF - American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2006 - pt.wkhealth.com
... the past three years; however, hospital pharmacies reported a ... Safe systems continue
to be in place in most ... administra- tion, monitoring, and patient educa- tion ...

ASHP national survey of pharmacy practice in acute care settings: Monitoring, patient education, and … -
CA Pedersen, PJ Schneider, JP Santell, EJ Kelly - American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2000 - pt.wkhealth.com
... Program (MERP) and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP ... while about
half of the pharmacies offered both ... home or long-term-care patients were served ...

The Institute of Medicine report on medical error: Overview and implications for pharmacy. -
LT Kohn - American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2001 - pt.wkhealth.com
... organizations. Also, pharmacists cannot create safe environments for patients
by staying within the pharmacy's walls. There are ...

Towards safer drug prescribing, dispensing and administration in hospitals -
PD Thornton, S Simon, TH Mathew - Journal of Quality in Clinical Practice, 1999 - Blackwell Synergy
... most effective strategy in providing a safe and efficient ... dispensed medication at
the patient's bedside; and ... and skill mixes in hospital pharmacies should be ...

Reducing Errors in Discharge Medication Lists by Using Personal Digital Assistants -
BC Grasso, R Genest, K Yung, C Arnold - Psychiatric Services, 2002 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
... To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. ... Adverse drug events in hospitalized
patients: excess length ... American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy 58:1126 ...

How will we know patients are safer? An organization-wide approach to measuring and improving safety … -
P Pronovost, CG Holzmueller, DM Needham, JB Sexton … - Critical Care Medicine, 2006 - ccmjournal.com
... independent check before dispensing medications) Was there adequate pharmacy staffing? ...
can provide a meaningful answer to the question, Are our patients safer? ...

Linking Laboratory and Pharmacy Opportunities for Reducing Errors and Improving Care -
GD Schiff, D Klass, J Peterson, G Shah, DW Bates - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2003 - Am Med Assoc
... drug prescription, represents a laboratory abnormality mandating pharmacy actions
and ... initially argued that troglitazone was safe if patients were properly ...

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TUESDAY, Sept. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Using bar coding in the hospital pharmacy may help prevent dangerous prescription errors, according to a new study.

Reporting in the Sept. 19 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston compared the rates of medication dispensing errors before and after bar coding technology was implemented at the hospital pharmacy.

With the new technology, every dose of medication was affixed with a bar code, and these codes were scanned in as an additional step to ensure that the right medications were being dispensed. Without the bar coding, the pharmacists relied on visual inspections alone to make sure they were dispensing the right medication.

After implementing the bar coding technology, the rate of dispensing errors fell by 85 percent, and the rate of dispensing errors with the potential to harm patients fell by 63 percent.

The bar coding technology was most effective when it required the pharmacy staff to scan all doses of medications.

"Overall, the use of bar code scanning technology appears to have a significant impact on the rate of dispensing errors that were serious enough to potentially harm patients," lead author Eric Poon, an associate physician in the hospital's department of general medicine, said in a prepared statement.

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