AHRQ Patient Safety Network ▲ Improving adverse drug event detection in critically ill patients through screening intensive care unit transfer summaries.

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Improving adverse drug event detection in critically ill patients through screening intensive care unit transfer summaries.

Anthes AM, Harinstein LM, Smithburger PL, Seybert AL, Kane-Gill SL. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2013;22:510-516.

Medication errors are common when patients are transferred from the intensive care unit (ICU) to regular wards. This study used screening of ICU transfer summaries to detect these errors.

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