Global healthcare expenditure is escalating at an unsustainable rate. Money spent on
medicines and managing medication-related problems continues to grow. The high …

Background Underlying systems factors have been seen to be crucial contributors to the
occurrence of medication errors. By understanding the causes of these errors, the most …

Background Miscommunications are a leading cause of serious medical errors. Data from
multicenter studies assessing programs designed to improve handoff of information about …

Objective.—To estimate the incidence of serious and fatal adverse drug reactions (ADR) in
hospital patients. Data Sources.—Four electronic databases were searched from 1966 to …

Objective To improve patient safety and clinical outcomes by reducing the risk of prescribing
errors, we tested the accuracy of a hybrid clinical decision support system in prioritizing …

Importance Children of parents expressing limited comfort with English (LCE) or limited
English proficiency may be at increased risk of adverse events (harms due to medical care) …

Objectives.—To assess incidence and preventability of adverse drug events (ADEs) and
potential ADEs. To analyze preventable events to develop prevention strategies. Design …

The global population of multimorbid older people is growing steadily. Multimorbidity is the
principal cause of complex polypharmacy, which in turn is the prime risk factor for …

Background Interruptions have been implicated as a cause of clinical errors, yet, to our
knowledge, no empirical studies of this relationship exist. We tested the hypothesis that …

FOR YEARS, medical and nursing students have been taught Florence Nightingale's dictum—
first, do no harm. 1 Yet evidence from a number of sources, reported over several decades …