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Patient Safety

  • Medication Reconciliation – The Ottawa Hospital

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    ImagineNation Outcomes Challenge Trailblazer Award recipient, The Ottawa Hospital, discusses their electronic medication reconciliation tool, which is helping the hospital to improve patient safety and quality of care

  • Outcomes Challenge Teams – Medication Reconciliation category

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    Medication reconciliation reduces the risk of adverse drug events by taking a complete medication history for every patient and ensuring new prescriptions are reconciled with that list. It has been a major priority of the Safer Healthcare Now! campaign...

  • Patient Safety Roundtable: Dr. David Bates

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    10 May 2007

    A presentation on EHR's and patient safety by Dr. David Bates, Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. A forerunner to publication of the EHR Patient Safety Report.

  • Patient Safety Roundtable: Dr. David Bates

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    10 May 2007

    A presentation on EHR's and patient safety by Dr. David Bates, Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. A forerunner to publication of the EHR Patient Safety Report.

  • Patient Safety Roundtable: Dr. Dean F. Sittig

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    10 May 2007

    A presentation on patient safety and EMR's by Dean F. Sittig, Ph.D., Director, Applied Research in Medical Informatics, Northwest Permanente. A forerunner to publication of the EHR Patient Safety Report (Summary) .

  • Patient Safety Roundtable: Dr. Mike Bainbridge

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    10 May 2007

    A presentation entitled Lessons from England by Dr. Mike Bainbridge, Clinical Architect, NHS. A forerunner to publication of the EHR Patient Safety Report (Summary) .

  • Patient Safety Roundtable: Dr. Mike Bainbridge

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    10 May 2007

    A presentation entitled Lessons from England by Dr. Mike Bainbridge, Clinical Architect, NHS. A forerunner to publication of the EHR Patient Safety Report.

  • Patient Safety Roundtable: Dr. Nicola Shaw

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    10 May 2007

    A presentation on promoting patient safety by Dr. Nicola Shaw of the Integrated Centre for Care Advancement through Research. A forerunner to publication of the EHR Patient Safety Report (Summary) .

  • Safer Healthcare Now! – Medication Reconciliation

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    Adverse drug events (ADEs) occur with disturbing frequency in acute care, long-term care, and home care settings. In the Canadian Adverse Events Study, drug and fluid-related events were the second most common type of procedure or event to which patient...

  • Saskatchewan’s electronic health record is helping clinicians improve patient care

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    Thousands of authorized health care providers in Saskatchewan have secure online access to their patients’ medical information. Learn why one Saskatchewan physician wouldn't dream of going back to paper.

  • Thoughts on e-Prescribing and Safety

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    Posted on November 8, 2016 by Dr. Michael Hamilton It’s important not to think of e-prescribing as an isolated end in itself. We really need a whole system and process built around getting medicines to patients — from drug regulation and oversight, to...

  • Trillium Health Centre: Benefits Evaluation of the Implementation of Patient Order Sets in Long-Term Care

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    03 May 2016

    This benefits evaluation report discusses the implementation of patient order sets at long-term care sites in the Mississauga Halton LHIN between November 2012 and March 2014. The report evaluates the impact of order sets on improved care delivery,...

  • Updated Toolkit is the Go-to Resource for Electronic Medication Reconciliation Implementation

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    Posted on July 11, 2017 by Seema Nayani We all know the importance of medication reconciliation, so why is there a significant lack of wide spread implementation of a formalized process throughout all care transitions such as admission, transfer or...

  • When Treatments Harm: Developing Adverse Drug Event Reporting to Improve Patient Safety

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    23 November 2016

    Dr. Corinne Hohl, , Emergency Room Physician, Vancouver General Hospital Adverse drug events, untreated, and harmful events associated with medications are a leading cause of emergency department visits and hospitalizations, and are often preventable....

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