ASHP's safety and quality pearls
By: [edited by] Melodi J. McNeil.
Contributors: McNeil, Melodi J.; American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.; ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting (41st : 2006 : Anaheim, Calif.)
Publisher: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bethesda, MD
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781585281978
Subjects: Hospital pharmacies -- Quality control -- Congresses; Drugs -- Standards -- Congresses; Pharmacy Service, Hospital -- standards -- Congresses; Drug Therapy -- standards -- Congresses; Medication Errors -- prevention & control -- Congresses; Pharmacy Service, Hospital -- organization & administration -- Congresses; Safety Management -- organization & administration -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Safety and quality pearls; American Society of Health-System Pharmacists' safety and quality pearls
Notes: A selection of presentations from a "Safety and Quality Pearls" session held at the 2006 ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting in Anaheim, Calif.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A multidisciplinary approach to venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in a community hospital / Jered Bauer; title: FMEA or FEMA : preventing your next anticoagulation disaster using existing failure mode effects analysis / Linda S. Tyler; title: The heparin protocol : if it can be done wrong, it will be / Michele Durda, Sharon Baty, Jerry Robinsin; title: STEMI and trauma, one in the same / Sandra L. Chase; title: Clostridium difficile associated disease : time to press the panic button? / Pazit Shaked; title: Pneumonia core measures : tools used by pharmacy to help ensure adherences / Kelly Ervin; title: 2-4-6-8, sliding scale's not really great! / Rebecca Garner, Heather Huentelman; title: Oh no, she's got an insulin pump! what do I do? / Sarah Barber; title: Strategies to enhance tobacco cessation education in your hospital / Alan Zillich, Frank Vitale, Karen S. Hudmon; title: Is my patient pregnant? Is my patient lactating? / Antonia Alafris, Henry Cohen; title: Could our computer help us comply with national quality standards? / David Merryfield; title: "If you build it, reports will come" / Susan J. Skledar, Kelly Ervin; title: Quality, near and far / John Petrich; title: The www of adverse drug reaction reporting / Todd Lemke; title: Utilizing a clinical pharmacist for refill triage to increase medication safety in an internal medicine clinic / Ernest J. Dole, Robles G, Murawski; title: Here today, gone tomorrow! : dealing with drug shortages / Agatha L. Nolen; title: Latex isn't a drug. Why should I care? / Connie Larson; title: Don't let your patients fall by the wayside! / Meghan F. Wilkosz; title: To stock or not to stock concentrated epinephrine multi-dose vials in the emergency department (ED) / Joanne G. Kowiatek; title: The magical medication flow-sheet : surmounting barriers to quality of care in the ambulatory care clinic / Angela R. Vinti.