Evidence-Based Medication Safety Quality Improvement Programs and Strategies for Critical Access Hospitals
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Over the past decade, medication safety has gained emphasis as a major health issue via numerous high-profile safety events (Kilbridge 2002). It is estimated that adverse drug events (ADE) occur in 6.5% to more than 20% of hospitalized patients (Bates 1995, Classen 1991, Rozich 2003). Although many of these are avoidable, there is disagreement among researchers regarding which types of issues have the greatest impact on medication safety as well as the degree to which those issues are preventable (Classen 2003).
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