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301. Medication Monitoring for Vulnerable Populations via Information Technology (MMITI) - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/medication-monitoring-vulnerable-populations-information-technology-mmiti/annual-summary/2010
     January 01, 2010 - , Heart Disease, Lung Disease Summary: The Institute of Medicine report, Preventing Medication Errors … , offered some of the first broad insights into the risk of medication errors in ambulatory settings … Quality lapses and errors related to medications are some of the most prevalent risks across all care … settings, and morbidity due to these errors is costly.

302. Medication Safety in Primary Care Practice Translating Research into Practice (MS-TRIP) (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017037-ornstein-final-report-2010.pdf
     January 01, 2010 - Scope: Medication errors in primary care practice cause morbidity but work is needed to specify relevant … measures and conduct interventions designed to reduce these errors. … Scope Medication errors in primary care practice are an important cause of morbidity but the extent … of these errors is largely unknown and effective interventions for reducing these errors need to be … model improved practice performance on several categories of preventable prescribing and monitoring errors

303. Improving Management of Test Results That Return After Hospital Discharge - 2012 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-management-test-results-return-after-hospital-discharge/annual-summary/2012
     January 01, 2012 - $577,880 Summary: Hospital patients discharged with pending test results are at risk for medical errors … These errors may arise from poor methods of managing test results and poor communication with followup

304. Improving the Delivery of Health Services at the Health Systems Level | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/2020-year-review/research-summary/improving-delivery-health-services-health-systems-level
     January 01, 2020 - While errors may happen at all stages of the medication process, different tools have been developed … Digital healthcare tools can reduce medication dosing errors and preventable adverse events such as drug-drug … hospital inpatient computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system, to identify medication ordering errors … The research team found that all reported ordering errors were due to a combination of associated risk

305. Pediatric Medication Prescribing Made Simpler and Safer (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/johnson-success-story.pdf
     August 29, 2013 - Medication Prescribing Made Simpler and Safer Children are particularly vulnerable to medication errors … Medication errors pose a greater threat to children than to adults for a number of reasons. … In an effort to reduce outpatient pediatric medication errors and to save time calculating doses, Dr … Electronic Prescribing (PedSTEP) project, which looked at the impact of e-prescribing on medication errors

306. The Taconic Health Information Network and Community of the Hudson Valley | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/past-initiatives/transforming-healthcare-quality-through-health-it/taconic-health-information
     March 31, 2008 - electronic data exchange, and does it actually improve the quality of health care and reduce medical errors … "We will look carefully at medical errors, adverse drug events, quality issues, and cost in all three … practitioners who can't do this on their own, to improve the quality of health care, and to reduce medical errors

307. Vandenberg, Ann E. | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/principal-investigator/vandenberg-ann-e
     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

308. Improving Healthcare Quality via Information Technology | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-healthcare-quality-information-technology
     January 01, 2023 - Care Acute Care Ambulatory Care Health Care Theme Adverse Events Medication Errors … Health Care (SVHC) and five private physician practices serving a rural area wanted to reduce medical errors … goals were: 1)demonstrate an increased culture of safety that encourages and supports the reporting of errors

309. Columbia University | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/organization/columbia-university
     January 01, 2023 - Principal Investigator(s) Schnall, Rebecca Assess Risk of Wrong-Patient Errors … were limited to having one patient record open at a time versus up to four and found no difference in errors

310. Diagnostic omission errors in acute paediatric practice: impact of a reminder system on decision-making | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
     digital.ahrq.gov/health-it-tools-and-resources/health-it-costs-and-benefits-database/diagnostic-omission-errors-acute
     January 01, 2006 - Diagnostic omission errors in acute paediatric practice: impact of a reminder system on decision-making

311. Medication Reconciliation to Improve Quality of Transitional Care - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/medication-reconciliation-improve-quality-transitional-care/annual-summary/2010
     January 01, 2010 - December 2010 Target Population: Adults, Safety Net 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

312. National Web-Based Teleconference on Utilizing Health IT to Improve Medication Management for the Care of Elderly Patients (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/medication-management-elderly-slides-081811.pdf
     August 18, 2011 - • Communication errors between health care providers are common in the care of older patients. … • High INR was due to multiple errors. • Patient was denied an important and beneficial therapy. … Adverse Drug Events injury resulting from a medical intervention related to a drug Medication Errors … (errors vs ADEs) Adverse Drug Events among Older Adults in the Ambulatory Setting Gurwitz, J. … Occurred 0 20 40 60 80 100 Patient Errors Monitoring Prescribing Percent of total Preventable ADEs

313. Improving Pediatric Safety and Quality with Healthcare Information Technology (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/improving_pediatric_safety_and_quality_with_hit_2009_update_2.pdf
     January 01, 2009 - The project then measured outcomes—including dosing errors, guideline adherence, and quality of documentation—related … designed to assess effects of an EHR with weight- based dosing decision support on rates of dosing errors … The reduction in dosing errors was partially offset by errors resulting from improper use of the CDS

314. Improving Management of Test Results that Return After Hospital Discharge - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-management-test-results-return-after-hospital-discharge/annual-summary/2011
     January 01, 2011 - $577,880 Summary: Hospital patients discharged with pending test results are at risk for medical errors … These errors may arise from poor methods of managing test results and poor communication with followup

315. Improving Management of Test Results that Return After Hospital Discharge | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/improving-management-test-results-return-after-hospital-discharge
     January 01, 2023 - Safety Many patients discharged from a hospital with pending test results experience medical errors … These errors occur because pending tests are often not communicated to the followup provider, and systems … hospital discharge generally felt that the delivery of the results improved quality of care, decreased errors

316. Tulare District Hospital Rural Health Electronic Medical Record Consortium - 2008 | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/tulare-district-hospital-rural-health-electronic-medical-record-consortium/annual-summary/2008
     January 01, 2008 - Quantitative data and methods were used to understand the impact of the IT system on medication errors … clinic physicians the opportunity to use computerized provider order entry (CPOE) to reduce medication errors … near-simultaneous firing of the Chief Nursing Officer, may have temporarily led to more patient care errors … The EMR project did not demonstrably reduce medical errors or improve hospital finances, but it has received

317. Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC) | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/taconic-health-information-network-and-community-thinc
     January 01, 2023 - Type of Care Primary Care Health Care Theme Interoperability Medication Errors … electronic data exchange, and does it actually improve the quality of health care and reduce medical errors … "We will look carefully at medical errors, adverse drug events, quality issues, and cost in all three … practitioners who can't do this on their own, to improve the quality of health care, and to reduce medical errors

318. A National Web Conference on Electronic Prescribing (e-RX) and the Medicare Modernization Act e-RX Pilot Evaluation (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/eRx_MMA_Pilot_Slides_A%20(3).pdf
     April 01, 2008 - Woolley Value & Benefits- Pharmacies � Better prescription information that will reduce medication errors … Value & Benefits- Payers/PBMs � Enhanced patient safety and reduced costs related to medication errors … National Council Quality Assurance) � Over 7,000 deaths each year due to manual-process prescribing errors … pharmacy and ask to speak to a pharmacist The Cognitive Psychology of Missed Diagnoses � Context errors … � Availability errors: The physician chooses the most likely diagnosis over conditions that are more

319. Web-based Renal Transplant Patient Medication System - Final Report (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r01hs015038-friedman-final-report-2007.pdf
     January 01, 2007 - in prescribing by physicians resulting in drug-drug interactions) and delivery (errors by pharmacists … In practice, errors in the use of these medications have been difficult to either preventxiv or verify … Equally important in the avoidance of preventable medication errors following transplantation is the … Errors identified are individually addressed with a combination of focused education and corrective … An additional one third (6/16) of errors involved patient compliance or drug availability.

320. Effect of Computerized Physician Order Entry with Clinical Decision Support on Adverse Drug Events in the Long-term Care Setting (pdf file)
     digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/page/2006Gurwitz_051711comp.pdf
     January 01, 2005 - Adverse Drug Events Medication Errors ADEs Preventable Introduction Adverse drug events (ADEs … among nursing home residents, and preventable adverse drug events are most commonly associated with errors … clinical information into the clinical decision support system • Setting the bar too high: ADEs vs errors