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| Carol A KeohaneSummaryAffiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital Country: USA Publications
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Quantifying nursing workflow in medication administrationCarol A Keohane
Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA
J Nurs Adm 38:19-26. 2008..Implications of their findings are discussed...- Intravenous medication safety and smart infusion systems: lessons learned and future opportunitiesCarol A Keohane
Center of Excellence for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA
J Infus Nurs 28:321-8. 2005..Finally, it details the lessons learned and the opportunities identified through the use of smart infusion technology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts... 
Medication safetyCarol A Keohane
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120 1613, USA
Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am 35:37-52, viii. 2008..This article addresses the topic of medication safety and examines specific strategies being used to decrease the incidence of medication errors across various clinical settings...- Occurrence of adverse, often preventable, events in community hospitals involving nephrotoxic drugs or those excreted by the kidneyBalthasar L Hug
Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02120 1613, USA
Kidney Int 76:1192-8. 2009..Our study shows that ADEs were common in patients with impaired kidney function in community hospitals, and many appear potentially preventable with renal dose checking... 
Errors associated with outpatient computerized prescribing systemsKaren C Nanji
Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 18:767-73. 2011..To report the frequency, types, and causes of errors associated with outpatient computer-generated prescriptions, and to develop a framework to classify these errors to determine which strategies have greatest potential for preventing them...- Effect of bar-code technology on the safety of medication administrationEric G Poon
Division of General Medicine Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 3 F, 1620 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02120, USA
N Engl J Med 362:1698-707. 2010..To help prevent such errors, technology has been developed to verify medications by incorporating bar-code verification technology within an electronic medication-administration system (bar-code eMAR)... - Adverse drug events and medication errors in psychiatry: methodological issues regarding identification and classificationKlaus Mann
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120 1613, USA
World J Biol Psychiatry 9:24-33. 2008..Data collected by means of the presented approach provide a basis for the development of effective strategies to reduce the risk of medication errors and thus improve patient safety in psychiatric care... - Medication errors in paediatric outpatientsRainu Kaushal
Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York 10065, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 19:e30. 2010..Although there is growing research on rates and characteristics of medication errors in adult ambulatory settings, less is known about the paediatric ambulatory setting... - Medication dispensing errors and potential adverse drug events before and after implementing bar code technology in the pharmacyEric G Poon
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Partners Information Systems, Boston, Massachusetts 02120, USA
Ann Intern Med 145:426-34. 2006..Many dispensing errors made in hospital pharmacies can harm patients. Some hospitals are investing in bar code technology to reduce these errors, but data about its efficacy are limited... - Adverse drug event rates in six community hospitals and the potential impact of computerized physician order entry for preventionBalthasar L Hug
Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Brigham Circle, 1620 Tremont St, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA, 02120 1613, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:31-8. 2010..Medications represent a major cause of harm and are costly for hospitalized patients, but more is known about these issues in large academic hospitals than in smaller hospitals... - Preventability of adverse drug events involving multiple drugs using publicly available clinical decision support toolsAdam Wright
Brigham and Women s Hospital, 1620 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Health Syst Pharm 69:221-7. 2012..The results of a retrospective evaluation of the frequency and preventability of adverse drug events (ADEs) involving multiple drugs among hospital inpatients are reported... - Risks of complications by attending physicians after performing nighttime proceduresJeffrey M Rothschild
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 1620 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02120 1613, USA
JAMA 302:1565-72. 2009..Few data exist on the relationships between experienced physicians' work hours and sleep, and patient safety... - Off the hamster wheel? Qualitative evaluation of a payment-linked patient-centered medical home (PCMH) pilotAsaf Bitton
Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA
Milbank Q 90:484-515. 2012.... - Electronic risk alerts to improve primary care management of chest pain: a randomized, controlled trialThomas D Sequist
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 1620 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02120, USA
J Gen Intern Med 27:438-44. 2012..The primary care evaluation of chest pain represents a significant diagnostic challenge... - Addition of electronic prescription transmission to computerized prescriber order entry: Effect on dispensing errors in community pharmaciesThomas T Moniz
Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA
Am J Health Syst Pharm 68:158-63. 2011..The addition of electronic prescription transmission to computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE) and its effect on dispensing errors in community pharmacies were evaluated... - Adverse drug events in pediatric outpatientsRainu Kaushal
Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Ambul Pediatr 7:383-9. 2007..To determine rates and types of adverse drug events (ADEs) in the pediatric ambulatory setting... - Medication safety in a psychiatric hospitalJeffrey M Rothschild
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02120 1613, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 29:156-62. 2007..We sought to assess the epidemiology of medication errors (MEs) and adverse drug events (ADEs) in a psychiatric hospital... - A controlled trial of smart infusion pumps to improve medication safety in critically ill patientsJeffrey M Rothschild
Division of General Medicine and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Crit Care Med 33:533-40. 2005..We sought to assess the impact of smart pumps with integrated decision support software on the incidence and nature of medication errors and adverse drug events... - Adverse drug events caused by serious medication administration errorsAbhivyakti Kale
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 1620 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02120, USA
BMJ Qual Saf 21:933-8. 2012..To determine how often serious or life-threatening medication administration errors with the potential to cause harm (potential adverse drug events) result in actual harm (adverse drug events (ADEs)) in the hospital setting... - Risk factors in preventable adverse drug events in pediatric outpatientsStephanie O Zandieh
Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical College and Komansky Center for Children s Health at New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, USA
J Pediatr 152:225-31. 2008..To determine whether there are racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, parental linguistic, or parental educational disparities in children who experienced an adverse drug event (ADE) in the ambulatory setting...