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Study Spotlights Medical Error Disclosure
Joint Commission Perspectives on Patient Safety, 08/27/09

While acute care centers are generally familiar with fall prevention measures and are used to conducting risk assessments and interventions, ambulatory surgical centers are faced with a unique challenge. As their patient population is, by definition, short–term and transitory, the nursing staff and other care providers are constantly exposed to new patients whose status changes dramatically during their brief stay. These patients are likely to enter the center healthy and/or with very few fall risk factors, only to be exposed to medications and procedures that immediately put them at high risk.

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Medical Food for Treatment of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and State Legislative Mandates
Topics in Clinical Nutrition, 11/16/09 Relevance Score: 68%

Mandatory Reporting of Medical Errors: Crafting Policy and Integrating It Into Practice
The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 10/13/09 Relevance Score: 68%

The Influence that Electronic Prescribing Has on Medication Errors and Preventable Adverse Drug Events: an Interrupted Time-series Study
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 11/11/09 Relevance Score: 67%

Selected Medical Errors in the ICU: Results of the IATROREF Study (Parts I and II)
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 11/03/09 Relevance Score: 67%

Barriers to the reporting of medication administration errors among nursing students
Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 10/08/09 Relevance Score: 67%