BACKGROUND: Accurate accounting of controlled drug transactions by inpatient hospital
pharmacies is a requirement in the United States under the Controlled Substances Act. At …

BACKGROUND: Accurate recording of disposition of controlled substances is required by
regulatory agencies. Linking anesthesia information management systems (AIMS) with …

Background To overcome resource limitations, Ascension hospitals have implemented a
virtual pharmacy technician program to facilitate the completion of medication histories in …

Purpose Development of an operational reporting dashboard designed to correlate data
from multiple sources to help detect potential drug diversion by automated dispensing …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Discrepancies in medication documentation most often
occur at handoffs or transition points in care. A process improvement team at the Portland …

Background When electronic anesthesia records are compared to pharmacy transactions,
discrepancies in total doses of controlled drugs are commonly found (≈ 16% of cases) …

Article-at-a-Glance Background At the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia), it is standard practice to perform medication reconciliation at patient …

Background Medication reconciliation is a key tool in the prevention of adverse drug events.
Objective To assess the impact of an electronic reconciliation tool in decreasing unintended …

Abstract Editor's Perspective What We Already Know about This Topic Controlled substance
diversion and tracking have received increased regulatory focus in a perioperative setting in …

Objective: Medication discrepancies between clinical systems may pose a patient safety
hazard. In this paper, we identify challenges and quantify medication discrepancies across …