Missed medication doses in hospitalised patients: a descriptive account of quality improvement measures and time series analysis.

Jamie J. Coleman; James Hodson; Hannah L. Brooks; David Rosser

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Missed medication doses in hospitalised patients: a descriptive account of quality improvement measures and time series analysis.

December 29, 2014

Coleman JJ, Hodson J, Brooks HL, et al. Int J Qual Health Care. 2013;25(5):564-72.

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Implementation of dashboards that displayed medication administration errors at the individual unit level was associated with a decline in the rate of missed medication doses at a British teaching hospital.

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