EHR-related medication errors in two ICUs

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• 作者：Pascale Carayon ; Shimeng Du ; Roger Brown ; Randi Cartmill ; Mark Johnson and Tosha B. Wetterneck
• 刊名：Journal of Healthcare Risk Management
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：36
• 期：3
• 页码：6-15
• 全文大小：684K
• ISSN：2040-0861

文摘

The objective of this study was to describe the frequency, potential harm, and nature of electronic health record (EHR)-related medication errors in intensive care units (ICUs). Using a secondary data analysis of a large database of medication safety events collected in a study on EHR technology in ICUs, we assessed the EHR relatedness of a total of 1622 potential preventable adverse drug events (ADEs) identified in a sample of 624 patients in 2 ICUs of a medical center. Thirty-four percent of the medication events were found to be EHR related. The EHR-related medication events had greater potential for more serious patient harm and occurred more frequently at the ordering stage as compared to non–EHR-related events. Examples of EHR-related events included orders with omitted information and duplicate orders. The list of EHR-related medication errors can be used by health care delivery organizations to monitor implementation and use of the technology and its impact on patient safety. Health information technology (IT) vendors can use the list to examine whether their technology can mitigate or reduce EHR-related medication errors.