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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/2006Dye_051111comp.pdf
June 05, 2006 - , Medication Errors, ADEs
Medication Administration Observational Study
Administration Errors
Self-Reporting … System (ONS)
Medication Errors including ‘near misses’
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Medication Error Assessment Plan
2004 … , Medication Errors, ADEs
Medication Administration Observational Study
Administration Errors
Self-Reporting … Computerized Physician Order Entry and
Medication Errors in a Pediatric Critical Care Unit. … Role of Computerized
Physician Order Entry Systems in Facilitating Medication
Errors.
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/research/shachak-et-al-2009
January 01, 2009 - Record (EMR) system; to reveal the underlying cognitive elements involved in EMR use, possible resulting errors … Automaticity of EMR use contributed to efficiency, but sometimes resulted in errors, such as the selection … "EMR use provoked new types of medical errors. … Typical errors reported by most study participants (>60%) were typos, adding information to the wrong … "The findings indicate that study participants were aware of these potential errors.
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/health-it-costs-and-benefits-database/potential-benefits-and-problems
February 15, 2006 - Outcomes: Impact on patient safety Summary: Settings: Over 500 US hospitals which reported medication errors … system, vendor, length of use, of sophistication of clinical support Barriers: Despite use of CPOE, errors … Many errors were due to provider distraction Quality of Care and Patient Safety Outcome: Facilities … with CPOE reported fewer inpatient medication errors and more outpatient medication errors than facilities … Facilities with CPOE less frequently reported errors that actually reached patients or harmed patients
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digital.ahrq.gov/events/national-web-conference-preventing-errors-and-promoting-safety-through-better-medication
February 16, 2011 - A National Web Conference on Preventing Errors and Promoting Safety Through Better Medication Management … She developed an indicator for monitoring prescription errors and a program for disseminating feedback … about the errors to medical practices.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/guide-to-evaluating-hie-projects-appendix-d.pdf
November 14, 2014 - an outpatient practice, the office manager
believed they were making a large number of prescription errors … On the other hand, if you observe the following data…
Before After
Number of Errors in 100 Sampled … the e-prescribing system, the errors may have shown up in the sampled
prescriptions by chance. … Random events might even result in one or two fewer errors before
implementation, giving the impression … that the system was causing errors rather than preventing
them.
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/health-it-costs-and-benefits-database/evaluating-capability
January 01, 2002 - estimate the effectiveness of information system applications designed to detect and prevent medication errors … Computer simulation of effectiveness and benefit analysis Outcomes: Predicted number of medication errors … The five prevention strategies can reduce the medication errors by 5.2%, 12.7%, 7.5%, 5.6%, and 26.3% … The simulation results are sensitive to the distribution of errors in the hospital, costs of an ADE, … and the proportion of medication errors resulting in ADEs.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/electronic-health-record-solutions-accurate-reporting-data-interprofessional
January 01, 2023 - Project Description
Publications
The issue of communication errors … (IP) rounds–that include participation by the entire care team--improves communication and reduces errors … This research identified the data domains at greatest risk for communication errors during ICU rounds … and the role that the EHR and clinical users have in the genesis of these errors. … of the research were:
Determine frequency of and the factors responsible for data communication errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/Health_IT_and_Safety_070910_comp.pdf
July 13, 2010 - rules
5.Verification of events
6.Classification
7.Feedback to improve queries
Target errors … in hospitals are common and can
have serious consequences
– Errors can occur at any stage … (49%)
Dispensing
Errors (14%)
Administration
Errors (26%)
Transcription
Errors (11%)
Transcription … errors
– Electronic medication administration records (eMAR)
• Dispensing errors
– Bar-coding … (49%)
Dispensing
Errors (14%)
Administration
Errors (26%)
Transcription
Errors (11%)
Order
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digital.ahrq.gov/track-6-using-reporting-systems-safety-and-quality-improvement
January 01, 2023 - Presenters will share experiences tracking various types of errors in a range of health care settings … cases (using the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program) in Non-VA hospitals, and near miss errors … Track Adverse Drug Events (ADEs)
This session will describe methods to detect and track medication errors … in hospitalization among the Elderly, evaluating ADEs in primary care settings, comparing medication errors … between specialties for errors related to antibiotics and cancer chemotherapy and examining the National
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digital.ahrq.gov/organization/medical-university-south-carolina
January 01, 2023 - Information Technology
Assessment of Pediatric Look-Alike, Sound-Alike Substitution Errors … Basco, William
Project Name
Assessment of Pediatric Look-Alike, Sound-Alike Substitution Errors … Technology
Assessment of Pediatric Look-Alike, Sound-Alike (LASA) Substitution Errors … Basco, William
Project Name
Assessment of Pediatric Look-Alike, Sound-Alike Substitution Errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/friedman-amy
January 01, 2023 - Project Name
Web-based Renal Transplant Patient Medication System
Medication errors … Medication errors in the outpatient setting: classification and root cause analysis. … Web-enabled education tools in hospitals and homes for renal transplant patients to reduce medication errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/2018-year-review/research-spotlights/leveraging-health-it-test-solutions-are-replicable-scalable-and
January 01, 2018 - Wachter, Murray, and Adler-Milstein 4
Wrong-patient errors can affect any patient in any healthcare … While capturing the instance of retracting and reordering mistakes does not correct or prevent errors … It will likely take a multi-pronged health IT approach to prevent these types of errors.”
- Dr. … The rate of wrong-patient order errors was lowest in outpatient settings, where physicians may care for … Use of photographs to prevent errors.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/virtual-continuity-and-its-impact-complex-hospitalized-patients-care
January 01, 2023 - Physician
Type of Care
Acute Care
Health Care Theme
Medication Errors … study was conducted utilizing data from the EMR to evaluate the primary outcome of discharge medication errors … There was a statistically significant decrease in medication errors even when adjusted for age, sex, … However, errors that were considered clinically significant—those leading to death, permanent or temporary … identifying PCP preferences for needed communication tools and demonstrating that discharge medication errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/reduce-medication-errors-qas-082614.pdf
August 26, 2014 - A National Web Conference on the Use of Health IT To Reduce Medication Errors and Improve Patient Safety … Q&A Follow-Up for A National Web Conference on the Use of Health IT to Reduce Medication
Errors and
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digital.ahrq.gov/organization/columbia-university-health-sciences
January 01, 2023 - displaying patient photos and alerts in the electronic health record for preventing wrong-patient order errors … , finding rigorous evidence that these interventions significantly decrease such errors. … Medication Safety
Description
This research showed that automated measurement of electronic order errors … can be readily integrated into electronic health records to study the epidemiology of order errors and
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/Strom.ppt
May 28, 2005 - Slide 1
CCEB
IMPROVING PATIENT SAFETY
BY REDUCING MEDICATION ERRORS
Brian L. Strom, M.D., M.P.H. … University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
CCEB
IMPROVING PATIENT SAFETY BY
REDUCING MEDICATION ERRORS … in the Medication Use Process
PRIME: Program for Reduction In Medication Errors
CCEB
OVERALL APPROACH … Focus - the occurrence of errors anywhere along the entire pathway of medication use
Drugs with … Pursue errors’ “second stories.”
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/health-it-costs-and-benefits-database/measuring-benefit-performance
January 01, 1999 - Intervention: Give hypothetical interventions in the system designed to prevent medication errors: 1 … Evaluation Method: A dynamic computer simulation model was constructed to model hospital medication errors … The five prevention strategies can reduce the medication errors by 5.2%, 12.7%, 7.5%, 5.6%, and 26.3% … The simulation results are sensitive to the distribution of errors in the hospital, costs of an ADE, … and the proportion of medication errors resulting gin ADEs.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/evaluating-impact-acpoecds-system-outcomes/annual-summary/2009
January 01, 2009 - Use
Summary: Computerized provider order entry (CPOE) has emerged as a viable option for reducing errors … It also evaluated the impact of the system on medication errors and downstream preventable adverse drug … Medication Errors
Results of the medication error and ADE study revealed that the frequency of errors … , perhaps due to few errors in this category. … Characterization of prescribing errors in an internal medicine clinic.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/electronic-prescribing-and-electronic-transmission-discharge-medication-lists/annual-summary/2010
January 01, 2010 - The first is a multi-center before-and-after study measuring the impact on medication errors of switching … with this new e-prescribing system and how user patterns or system features may influence medication errors … If rates of errors vary greatly between commercial systems there are potential policy implications for … severity of the medication errors and ADEs. … Improvements were primarily attributed to reducing inappropriate abbreviation errors.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/2011_017029_kaushal_pdf_3.pdf
January 01, 2011 - The first was a multi-center pre-post study
measuring the impact on medication errors when switching … of the errors and ADEs. … Impact and Findings: For the first study, the rates and types of prescribing errors made by physicians … Improvements were primarily attributed to reducing inappropriate
abbreviation errors. … The results also provide important
information on the most common types of medication errors.