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The lead researcher for Safe Assured, Dr. James R. Barker, recently gave an interview on CTV News Atlantic discussing the team's work on error reporting in community pharmacies across Nova Scotia. Watch the .
2020 Robert L. Wears Patient Safety Leadership Award
Members of the original SafetyNET-Rx team have been awarded the from the QSEN Institute for Patient Safety in Jacksonville, Florida. The award recognizes those who have significantly impacted the field of patient safety through critical analysis, research, education, or knowledge dissemination.
The award is shared by Jim Barker, the principal investigator of Safe Assured (formerly SafetyNET-Rx) and the Herbert S. Lamb Chair in Business Education at the Rowe School of Business; Neil MacKinnon, formerly at 新加坡六合彩开奖直播 and now Dean of the Winkle College of Pharmacy at the University of Cincinnati; Todd Boyle, formerly Canada Research Chair in Quality Assurance in Community Pharmacy and now Acting Dean of Business at St. F.X.; and Bev Zwicker, Registrar of the Nova Scotia College of Pharmacists.
Article by the Rowe School of Business
新加坡六合彩开奖直播's Faculty of Management recently published an article on Safe Assured as the North American leader in community pharmacy safety. To read more about the scope of the team's research and their plans for what's next, see the article here.
Past publications on Safe Assured聽
These reports followed the publication of our paper in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in December of 2018, titled "Quality Related Events Reported by Community Pharmacies in Nova Scotia: A 7-year Descriptive Analysis".聽
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Media publications on the implementation and initial results of the SafetyNET-Rx error reporting system.
- Global News: (Dec 4, 2016)
Other articles related to community pharmacy
- WKYT: (Mar 2, 2020)
- Global News: (Dec 13, 2019)