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1 to 2 of 2 Research Studies DisplayedWatterson TL, Stone JA, Brown R
CancelRx: a health IT tool to reduce medication discrepancies in the outpatient setting.
Medication list discrepancies between outpatient clinics and pharmacies can lead to medication errors. Within the last decade, a new health information technology (IT), CancelRx, emerged to send a medication cancellation message from the clinic's electronic health record (EHR) to the outpatient pharmacy's software. The objective of this study was to measure the impact of CancelRx on reducing medication discrepancies between the EHR and pharmacy dispensing software.
AHRQ-funded; HS025793.
Citation: Watterson TL, Stone JA, Brown R .
CancelRx: a health IT tool to reduce medication discrepancies in the outpatient setting.
J Am Med Inform Assoc 2021 Jul 14;28(7):1526-33. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocab038..
Keywords: Medication: Safety, Medication, Medical Errors, Adverse Drug Events (ADE), Adverse Events, Patient Safety, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Health Information Technology (HIT), Ambulatory Care and Surgery
Sharma AE, Yang J, Del Rosario JB
What safety events are reported for ambulatory care? Analysis of incident reports from a Patient Safety Organization.
Health care staff document patient safety events using incident reporting systems, which are compiled within Patient Safety Organization databases. In this study, researchers sought to describe the patterns and characteristics of incident reporting behaviors for ambulatory care from in-situ reporting systems from the United States. The investigators concluded that outpatient reporting systems were limited for primary care and home/community settings, but ambulatory care systems reported more harmful events related to diagnosis and patient and caregiver challenges.
AHRQ-funded; HS21322.
Citation: Sharma AE, Yang J, Del Rosario JB .
What safety events are reported for ambulatory care? Analysis of incident reports from a Patient Safety Organization.
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 2021 Jan;47(1):5-14. doi: 10.1016/j.jcjq.2020.08.010..
Keywords: Patient Safety, Ambulatory Care and Surgery