Clinicians & Providers

• Preventability of Adverse Drug Events Involving Multiple Drugs Using Publicly Available Clinical Decision Support Tools
• Reducing and Preventing Adverse Drug Events To Decrease Hospital Costs

Hospital & Health System Resources

• Reducing and Preventing Adverse Drug Events To Decrease Hospital Costs

Policymaker Resources

• Preventability of Adverse Drug Events Involving Multiple Drugs Using Publicly Available Clinical Decision Support Tools

Fact Sheets

September 1 2012 20120901

Reducing and Preventing Adverse Drug Events To Decrease Hospital Costs

Other Research & Data

• American Pharmacy Services Corporation
• Preventability of Adverse Drug Events Involving Multiple Drugs Using Publicly Available Clinical Decision Support Tools

Other News & Events

• AHRQ Study Examines Adverse Drug Events Caused by Medication Administration Errors
• AHRQ offers free toolkit to strengthen medication reconciliation
• Adverse drug event surveillance tailored to hospitalized children
• An automated phone response system can help track adverse drug events in primary care patients
• Clinical informatics monitoring tool helps reduce adverse drug events in nursing home settings
• Elderly colon cancer patients receiving chemotherapy after surgery are at risk for various toxicities
• Electronic health record-based medication monitoring improves patient compliance in primary care clinics
• Including FDA hotline in print drug ads has small effect on adverse event reporting by consumers
• Less than half of pharmacy computer systems studied correctly identified drug-drug interactions
• Medication review technique may help identify drug-related problems in the elderly
• Medication side effects, injuries up dramatically
• More safeguards needed to prevent adverse drug events caused by medication administration errors
• Nearly 1 in 10 outpatient computerized prescriptions contains errors
• Provision of personal digital assistants alone does not help providers avoid drug-drug interactions
• Systems to detect adverse drug events need buy-in from leaders and staff to become part of hospital routine