Automated E-mail Reminders Linked to Electronic Health Records to Improve Medication Reconciliation on Admission.

Introduction: Medication reconciliation can reduce medication discrepancies, errors, and patient harm. After a large academic hospital introduced a medication reconciliation software program, there was low compliance with electronic health record documentation of home medication reconciliation. This quality improvement project aimed to improve medication reconciliation on admission in 4 pediatric inpatient units by 50% over 3 months.

Transition from a traditional code team to a medical emergency team and categorization of cardiopulmonary arrests in a children's center.

Objectives: To study the effect of an intervention on prevention of respiratory arrest and cardiopulmonary arrest (CPA) and to characterize ward CPAs by preceding signs and symptoms and initial cardiac rhythm.

Design: A before-and-after interventional trial (12 months preintervention and 12 months postintervention).

Setting: A tertiary care, academic children's hospital.

Patient safety in emergency situations: A web-based pediatric arrest medication calculator.

To prevent adverse drug events for pediatric patients, increase care provider efficiency, and reduce stress for care providers, a technology tool was developed that calculates medication dosage requirements during emergency situations. This article describes a simple low-cost technological solution for improving patient safety and care-provider assurance. Follow-up studies provide validation of the technology tool.