“Chart First”—A targeted initiative to reduce medication errors associated with verbal orders in the emergency department: A retrospective cohort study
A simple multidisciplinary approach encouraging medication prescribing prior to administration to patients may be an effective intervention to reduce medication errors associated with verbal orders. Ongoing initiatives are indicated for prevention of medication-related errors in the ED.
Authors
- Ronald Huynh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8759-7425)
- Eleanor Junckerstorff
- Biswadev Mitra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0508-2450)
- Cristina Roman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6889-2338)
- Diana Goubrial (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4006-2744)
- Kate Settle
- Gary Yip
Institutions
- The Alfred Hospital (AU)
- Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research centre (AU)
- Monash Health (AU)
- National Trauma Research Institute (AU)
- Alfred Health (AU)
- Monash University (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy
- Published
- 2025-12-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajhp/zxaf336
- Primary Topic
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00