AHRQ Patient Safety Network ► Quality improvements in decreasing medication administration errors made by nursing staff in an academic medical center hospital: a trend analysis during the journey to Joint Commission International accreditation and in the post-accreditation era.

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Quality improvements in decreasing medication administration errors made by nursing staff in an academic medical center hospital: a trend analysis during the journey to Joint Commission International accreditation and in the post-accreditation era.

Wang HF, Jin JF, Feng XQ, et al. Ther Clin Risk Manag. 2015;11:393-406.

A hospital in the People's Republic of China was able to achieve a significant reduction in medication administration errors through a multidisciplinary quality improvement effort. The initiative included organizational measures, information technology interventions, quality improvement tools, and process optimization.

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