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digital.ahrq.gov/research-method/delphi-method
January 01, 2023 - Delphi Method
Preventing Perioperative Medication Errors and Adverse … Preventing Perioperative Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events Through the Use of Clinical Decision … Project Name
Preventing Perioperative Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events Through the Use of … communication tools and computer-based medication reconciliation to decrease hospital discharge medication errors … communication tools and computer-based medication reconciliation to decrease hospital discharge medication errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/all-workflow-tools/risk
January 01, 2023 - all possible failures that can occur within a system and then determines what the effects of those errors … Description
The process decision program chart (PDPC) provides a systematic means of finding errors … They are similar to other analysis methods such as fault trees as they analyze errors based on the … potential causes of those errors.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/medication-management-closed-computerized-loop
January 01, 2023 - Population
Rural Populations
Health Care Theme
Adverse Events
Medication Errors … reduction in the number of reported unexpected adverse drug reactions and a 10 percent decrease in errors … Observations of medication administration yielded a 45 percent reduction in observed medication errors … project resulted in heightened awareness of patient safety and a loss of complacency about the sources of errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/2006StromPepper_051211comp.pdf
May 23, 2011 - Review of IT Structures of
PennMedicine
CCEB
Improving Patient Safety
by Reducing Medication Errors … psychometric
personality inventory
CCEB
Project 4 Outcomes
• The “near misses” for medication errors … CCEB
Project Four
Qualitative Summary Outcomes
• An emerging theme focused on the
errors created … by technological
solutions designed to reduce errors
• Several examples illustrate the
unintended … :�Overall Organization
Project 4: Medication Errors�Related to Workplace Stressors�(Ross Koppel, PhD
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/health-it-costs-and-benefits-database/medication-error-reporting-and
March 01, 2007 - Purpose of Study: To compare the number and type of medication errors reported before and after the … Intervention: Implementation of CPOE Evaluation Method: The type, number, and severity of medication errors … before and after CPOE implementation were compared, as well as the type of personnel reporting the errors … Quality of Care and Patient Safety Outcome: During the month of implementation, the number of ordering errors … on service and an online medication error reporting system likely caused the increase in documented errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/current-health-it-priorities/clinical-decision-support-cds/chapter-1-approaching-clinical-decision/section-10-references
December 12, 2008 - About Medication Errors ; accessed 9/30/2008. … About Medication Errors. … USP-ISMP Medication Errors Reporting Program ; accessed 12/12/2008. … Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series . … Relationship between medication errors and adverse drug events.
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digital.ahrq.gov/research-method/chart-review
January 01, 2023 - Decisionmaking & Problem Solving in Acute Care
An Etiology for Medication Ordering Errors … An Etiology for Medication Ordering Errors in Computerized Provider Order Entry Systems - Final Report … Principal Investigator
Abraham, Joanna
Project Name
An Etiology for Medication Ordering Errors … About Epilepsy Surgery Patients
Automated detection of wrong-drug prescribing errors … Automated detection of wrong-drug prescribing errors.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/statewide-implementation-electronic-health-records
January 01, 2023 - Type of Care
Primary Care
Specialty Care
Health Care Theme
Medication Errors … 2) To what extent will adoption of EHRs reduce medication errors and improve the quality of ambulatory … Understanding the nature of medication errors in an ICU with a computerized physician order entry system … Ambulatory prescribing errors among community-based providers in two states. … Are physicians' perceptions of healthcare quality and practice satisfaction affected by errors associated
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/medication-reconciliation-improve-quality-transitional-care/annual-summary/2011
January 01, 2011 - Period
September 2009 - September 2012
AHRQ Funding Amount
$1,181,628
Summary: Medication errors … account for approximately 20 percent of all medical errors in the United States each year. … facilitation of inpatient MR improves completion of MR and decreases the incidence of drug-related medical errors … Determine whether electronic facilitation alters medical reconciliation and the incidence of medication errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/uc1hs015319-sullivan-final-report-2007.pdf
January 01, 2007 - We posited that few
errors would result in ADEs. … ; that is, whether
errors caused harm. … The majority of errors were potential
errors only (25.1% pre- and 6.9% post-implementation: Level A, … or potential errors; however 92% (25.1% /
27.4%) of these errors were not actual errors, but potential … Surprisingly, errors involving Beers
). 6.9% of the errors
reached the patient.
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/safety-risks-ehr-qa-082916.pdf
August 29, 2016 - our systems safe and resilient to
wrong-patient errors. … For instance, a surveillance system could continually look for order-retract errors. … from identity theft of EHR, which can result in wrong-medication
errors? … QUESTION:
You mentioned errors related to time spent addressing a pop-up. … What kinds of errors have you seen, and
is there a threshold delay when those errors start happening
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/electronic_prescribing_and_electronic_transmission_of_discharge_medication_lists_2010_pdf__2.pdf
January 01, 2010 - The first is a multi-center before-and-after study measuring
the impact on medication errors of switching … If rates of errors
vary greatly between commercial systems there are potential policy implications for … All medication errors will be reviewed by two experienced physicians who
will use this tool to rate … the severity of the medication errors and ADEs. … Improvements were primarily attributed to reducing inappropriate abbreviation
errors.
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-care-theme/human-factors
January 01, 2023 - Investigator(s)
Hettinger, Aaron Zachary
An Etiology for Medication Ordering Errors … Order Entry Systems
Description
This research assessed the etiology of medication ordering errors … , finding that errors stemmed from multi-level risk factors and showing the utility of a void alert tool … to prospectively capture the broad range of errors that may occur in practice that may be missed by
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs023793-gold-final-report-2021.pdf
January 01, 2021 - , and the role the EHR and clinical users play in the genesis of these errors. … These extra elements of verbal
communication can actually further compound errors. … Indeed, cognitive errors and errors in medical decision making are believed to
be the largest class … of medical errors for non-procedural areas. … This implying less frequently ordered labs were more
likely to experience reporting errors.
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-patient-safetyquality-health-information-technology-implementation
January 01, 2023 - Type of Care
Acute Care
Health Care Theme
Adverse Events
Medication Errors … Further, we designed around precarious events, specifically medication errors, by identifying the prevalence … of medication errors, near misses and preventable adverse drug events in our current manual patient … around patient safety and supported by a centralized IT system that will help the hospital prevent errors … These included: operative and post-operative complications and infections, medication errors, patient
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digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/medication-reconciliation-improve-quality-transitional-care/annual-summary/2012
January 01, 2012 - Period
September 2009 – July 2013
AHRQ Funding Amount
$1,181,628
Summary: Medication errors … account for approximately 20 percent of all medical errors in the United States each year. … facilitation of inpatient MR improves completion of MR and decreases the incidence of drug-related medical errors … Determine whether electronic facilitation alters medication reconciliation and the incidence of medication errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/evaluating_the_impact_of_2009_update_2.pdf
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 … Results of the medication error and ADE study revealed that the frequency of errors declined from … , perhaps due to few errors in this category. … Characterization of prescribing errors in an internal
medicine clinic.
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digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/evaluation-resources/workflow-assessment-health-it-toolkit/all-workflow-tools/cost-of-poor-quality-analysis
January 01, 2023 - If there appears to be a minimal number of steps with red circles, attempt to determine what errors can … occur, how to determine when errors have occurred, and what is in place in the process to control these … errors.
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digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/pitts-samantha
July 24, 2024 - Patient Safety
Event Date
July 24, 2024 - 2:30pm
- July 24, 2024 - 4:00pm
Medication errors … Preventable medication errors cost the nation more than $21 billion annually across all care settings … research developed strategies to optimize CancelRx implementation and measured its impact on dispensing errors
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digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/July%20Teleconference%20Transcript.pdf
April 25, 2013 - We can also learn about errors that
are standard reported errors that reported to Government agencies … Errors can occur at any of these levels. … ordering errors. … and the errors with potential for harm. … in transcription errors.