Frank Federico

TL;DR: Medication errors are common in pediatric inpatient settings, and further efforts are needed to reduce them.

TL;DR: Improving communication between outpatients and providers may help prevent adverse events related to drugs, and many are preventable or ameliorable.

TL;DR: It is found that the adverse event detection methods commonly used to track patient safety in the United States today-voluntary reporting and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Patient Safety Indicators-fared very poorly compared to other methods and missed 90 percent of the adverse events.

TL;DR: Of the assessed interventions, computerized physician order entry with clinical decision support systems; ward-based clinical pharmacists; and improved communication among physicians, nurses, and pharmacists had the greatest potential to reduce medication errors in pediatric inpatients.

TL;DR: A review of medication-related malpractice claims to study their frequency, nature, and costs and to assess the human factor failures associated with preventable ADEs and the potential benefits of proved effective ADE prevention strategies on ADE claims prevention.