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Contra Costa Regional Medical Center Increases the Percent of Patients with All Medications Reconciled on Admission to 99 Percent
“We are so jazzed about this, it’s like someone invented the wheel.” Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (Martinez, California, USA) has new systems for reconciling patients’ medications at admission, transfer and discharge as part of a broader initiative to redesign processes to improve reliability.
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Medication Reconciliation Across the Continuum
HealthPartners Regions Hospital (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) uses composite and all-or-nothing measurement to reduce the incidence of ADE-related hospital readmissions for patients with congestive heart failure.
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Accuracy at Every Step: The Challenge of Medication Reconciliation
Medication reconciliation — a formal process of collecting and maintaining a complete and accurate list of a patient’s current medications and comparing that list to the physician’s admission, transfer, and discharge orders — has been shown to reduce adverse drug events.
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Impact of Computerized Physician Order Entry on Medication Error Rate
Winifred Masterson Burke Rehabilitation Hospital (White Plains, New York, USA) implemented a Computerized Physician Order Entry system and reduced their medication error rate by just over 50 percent.
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When Leaders Embrace Change
iPods. Mountain climbing. Forgiveness. They’re not your standard tools of leadership. But they’ve recently become elements of an effective effort by leaders of one large health care system to create a deep-seated culture of safety throughout the organization, using the six interventions at the heart of IHI’s 100,000 Lives Campaign as the framework.
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Safer Patients Initiative Leads to Reductions in Mortality and Adverse Events in the United Kingdom
With the support of £4.3 million in funding from The Health Foundation, an independent charity in the United Kingdom, IHI has launched an ambitious program called the Safer Patients Initiative designed to create centers of excellence in patient safety in acute care trusts (provider systems) in each of the four countries in the UK.
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Metropolitan Hospital Reduces Dispensing Errors in the Pharmacy by 40 Percent
For the cost of a roll of red tape, the pharmacy at Metropolitan Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, created a simple but effective way to improve medication safety
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Leading Clinical Performance Improvement for Medication Reconciliation with Lean Concepts
A team at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis, Missouri, USA) took on the JCAHO National Patient Safety Goal that addresses medication reconciliation and in six months created and implemented a process throughout the hospital allowing for safe, accurate, efficient and consistent medication reconciliation for admission, transfer, and discharge with full physician support.
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Pursuing Perfection: Report from McLeod on Improving Medication Safety
McLeod Regional Medical Center (Florence, South Carolina, USA), a member of IHI's Pursuing Perfection program, improves their rate of medication errors by making numerous changes in their care methods beginning with a top-down change in culture.
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Reconciling Medications to Avoid Medical Errors
Adverse drug events can do serious harm to patients while they are hospitalized. To help mitigate this risk, many hospitals are now implementing medication reconciliation as part of their patient safety initiatives.
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