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Medication Safety Certificate Program. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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• Published May 2017

Medication Safety Certificate Program.

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and Institute for Safe Medication Practices.

Leadership commitment to reduce medication errors can help address this safety problem. This certificate program presents key concepts that support organizational efforts to augment medication safety, including event analysis, safety culture, risk identification, and change management.

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JOURNAL ARTICLE › REVIEW

Adverse health events related to self-medication practices among elderly: a systematic review.

Locquet M, Honvo G, Rabenda V, et al. Drugs Aging. 2017;34:359-365.

JOURNAL ARTICLE › STUDY

Incidence of clinically relevant medication errors in the era of electronically prepopulated medication reconciliation forms: a retrospective chart review.

Stockton KR, Wickham ME, Lai S, et al. CMAJ Open. 2017;5:E345-E353.

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Frequency and type of situational awareness errors contributing to death and brain damage: a closed claims analysis.

Schulz CM, Burden A, Posner KL, et al. Anesthesiology. 2017 May 1; [Epub ahead of print].

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Polypharmacy.

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WEB RESOURCE › MULTI-USE WEBSITE

Medication Without Harm: WHO's Third Global Patient Safety Challenge.

Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Association.

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