Abstract Background The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health
(HITECH) Act subsidizes implementation by hospitals of electronic health records with …

Medication errors in critical care are frequent, serious, and predictable. Critically ill patients
are prescribed twice as many medications as patients outside of the intensive care unit (ICU) …

CONTEXT. Pediatric and intensive care patients are particularly at risk for medication errors.
Computerized physician order entry systems could be effective in reducing medication …

Methods Our search strategy (Appendix 1, available at www. cmaj. ca/cgi/content/full/180/9/
936/DC1) resulted in the identification of 1168 citations: 870 from MEDLINE, 262 from …

Objective: To provide ICU clinicians with evidence-based guidance on safe medication use
practices for the critically ill. Data Sources: PubMed, Cochrane Database of Systematic …

Background Preventable adverse drug reactions (PADRs) in inpatients are associated with
harm, including increased length of stay and potential loss of life, and result in elevated …

Critically ill patients need life saving treatments and are often exposed to medications
requiring careful titration. The aim of this paper was to review systematically the research …

Medication errors are defined as “any preventable event that may cause or lead to
inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the …

Objectives To measure the incidence and nature of prescribing errors on electronic
prescriptions (e-prescriptions) that required active intervention by dispensing pharmacists to …

Medication errors have been increasingly recognized as a major cause of iatrogenic illness
and system-wide improvements have been the focus of prevention efforts. Critically ill …