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61. Medication Without Harm - How Digital Healthcare Tools Can Support Providers and Improve Patient Safety | Digital Healthcare Research
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    July 24, 2024 - Description: Medication errors are a leading cause of injury and avoidable harm in healthcare, with … Preventable medication errors cost the nation more than $21 billion annually across all care settings … approaches and digital healthcare interventions such as clinical decision support tools are reducing medication … errors, improving provider effectiveness, and enhancing patient safety in a variety of clinical care … errors in electronic orders.

62. Section 8 - A Peek at the Literature on Medication Use and CDS | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/current-health-it-priorities/clinical-decision-support-cds/chapter-1-approaching-clinical-decision/section-8-peek-literature-medication-use-and-cds
    January 01, 2006 - Medication errors, which indicate breakdown in the medication use cycle and may cause bad outcomes, are … safety entitled Preventing Medication Errors, as part of their Quality Chasm series … error per day. … The IOM report also synthesized research on medication errors in the outpatient setting, citing studies …   [47] A systematic review found that CPOE reduces medication errors and ADEs.

63. Improving Patient Safety and Clinician Cognitive Support Through eMAR Redesign | Digital Healthcare Research
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    April 30, 2024 - errors occur most commonly during the ordering and reviewing of medications and nearly all are a result … error type. … A text mining approach to categorize patient safety event reports by medication error type. … errors across medication process stages. … Identifying health information technology usability issues contributing to medication errors across medication

64. Electronic Prescribing and Electronic Transmission of Discharge Medication Lists - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research
    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 … Specific Aims: Measure the effects on medication errors of transitioning from one e-prescribing system … The team further developed a medication error and adverse drug event tool. … 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.

65. Computerized Physician Order Entry and Medication Errors in a Pediatric Critical Care Unit | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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    January 01, 2004 - Computerized Physician Order Entry and Medication Errors in a Pediatric Critical Care Unit

66. Electronic Prescribing and Electronic Transmission of Discharge Medication Lists (pdf file)
    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 … Specific Aims: •   Measure the effects on medication errors of transitioning from one e-prescribing system … The team further developed a medication error and adverse drug event tool. … 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.

67. Electronic Prescribing and Electronic Transmission of Discharge Medication Lists - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/electronic-prescribing-and-electronic-transmission-discharge-medication-lists/annual-summary/2011
    January 01, 2011 - The first was a multi-center pre-post study measuring the impact on medication errors when switching … (Achieved) 2011 Activities: The first study, measuring the effects on medication errors and data … Risk factors for medication errors and ADEs included taking 11 or more medications, having two or more … The results also provide important information on the most common types of medication errors. … This information can help providers identify patients who may be at higher risk for medication errors

68. Nanji, Karen C. | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Preventing Perioperative Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events Through the Use of Clinical Decision … 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 … Project Name Preventing Perioperative Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events Through the Use of … Project Name Preventing Perioperative Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events Through the Use of

69. An Etiology for Medication Ordering Errors in Computerized Provider Order Entry Systems | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Population Clinical Staff/Clinician Health Care Theme Human Factors Medication … Errors Medication Safety Medication errors cause adverse drug events in nearly 5 percent

70. Impact of automation on pharmacist interventions and medication errors in a correctional health care system | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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    January 01, 2001 - Impact of automation on pharmacist interventions and medication errors in a correctional health care … Study:  Evaluate the impact of an automated check-and-sortation system on pharmacist interventions and medication … errors.

71. Develop and Validate Health IT Safety Measures To Capture Violations of the Five Rights of Medication Safety | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Near-miss medication errors, such as when clinicians realize they have ordered the wrong dose or frequency … Preventable medication errors cost the nation more than $21 billion annually across all care settings … Near-miss medication errors are difficult to identify and are underreported but can be opportunities … to make electronic ordering safer Medication errors are the most common and preventable cause of patient … Near-miss medication errors, such as when clinicians realize they’ve ordered the wrong dose or frequency

72. PREVENTING ERRORS AND PROMOTING SAFETY THROUGH BETTER MEDICATION MANAGEMENT (pdf file)
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    May 10, 2016 - I'd like to start with definitions of what medication errors are. … I think, intuitively, we all know that a medication error is when the patient gets the wrong drug. … It's a high-alert medication error risk scorecard. … Each medication error has a different scorecard because some of the questions that we'll be gathering … And we used that against medication error reports that we received on our own reporting system and

73. Electronic Prescribing and Electronic Transmission of Discharge Medication Lists | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Evidence indicates that health information technology (IT) decreases medication errors in the inpatient … The first was a multi-site, pre-post study measuring the effects of health IT on medication errors when … error rates. … The specific aims of the study were to: Measure the effects on medication errors of transitioning … Finally, the cohort controlled study did not find a reduction in the incidence of medication errors.

74. Steele AW et al. 2005 "The effect of automated alerts on provider ordering behavior in an outpatient setting." | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - errors and decrease adverse drug events with the use of clinical-decision support systems presenting … errors related to drug-laboratory interactions in an outpatient primary-care setting. … Implementation of rules technology to prevent medication errors could be an effective tool for reducing … medication errors in an outpatient setting." … Objective To assess "the impact of automated alerts on medication errors related to [missing or abnormal

75. Develop and Validate Health IT Safety Measures to Capture Violations of the 5 Rights of Medication Safety – Final Report (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r01hs024538-adelman-final-report-2022.pdf
    January 01, 2022 - We developed and validated five new RAR medication error measures: Wrong-Dose (all age groups combined … Validation of automated wrong­ dose and wrong-frequency medication error measures: Preliminary results … Development and validation of an automated wrong-PRN medication error measure: preliminary results. … National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention. … What is a medication error? October 10, 2022. 31. Grober ED, Bohnen JM. Defining medical error.

76. Medication Reconciliation to Improve Quality of Transitional Care | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2023 - Type of Care Acute Care Health Care Theme Medication Reconciliation Medication … errors account for approximately 20 percent of all medical errors in the U.S. … errors. … Determine whether electronic facilitation alters medical reconciliation and the incidence of medication … errors in ambulatory care.

77. Kaushal R et al. 2003 "Effects of computerized physician order entry and clinical decision support systems on medication safety - a systematic review." | Digital Healthcare Research
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    January 01, 2003 - error rates. … errors) markers. … Of the CPOE studies, 2 demonstrated a marked decrease in the serious medication error rate, 1 an improvement … errors or adverse drug events and 1 an improvement in theophylline-associated medication errors. … Conclusions: Use of CPOE and isolated CDSSs can substantially reduce medication error rates, but most

78. Comprehensive Information Technology (IT) Solution for Quality and Patient Safety - 2009 | Digital Healthcare Research
    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/comprehensive-information-technology-it-solution-quality-and-patient-safety/annual-summary/2009
    January 01, 2009 - Children are more susceptible to serious medication errors than adults due to weight-based dosing, off-label … It changes the culture of the organization gradually and whittles away at the medication error and other … Specific Aims Improve pediatric patient safety by reducing medication errors. ( Achieved ) Improve … During August 2005, smart pump technology for syringes was implemented to prevent medication errors at … error rates and ADEs observed in this study.

79. Computerized physician order entry and medication errors in a pediatric critical care unit | AHRQ Digital Healthcare Research: Informing Improvement in Care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency
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    January 01, 2004 - Computerized physician order entry and medication errors in a pediatric critical care unit

80. Comprehensive Information Technology Solution for Quality and Patient Safety (pdf file)
    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/activity/comprehensive_information_tech_2009_update_2.pdf
    January 01, 2009 - Children are more susceptible to serious medication errors than adults due to weight-based dosing, off … errors. … It changes the culture of the organization gradually and whittles away at the medication error and other … During August 2005, smart pump technology for syringes was implemented to prevent medication errors … error rates and ADEs observed in this study.