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Medication error study
- Aim
- Evaluate the impact of e-prescribing on medication errors and adverse drug events (ADEs)
- Capture error characteristics and severity
- Methods
- Pre-/ post- study
- Retrospective review, 10,000 scripts (3,000 for pilot study at 1 internal medicine clinic)
- Adopted definition and severity index of the NCC MERP1
- Data sources: prescriptions, EHR, laboratory values, hospital admit / discharge / emergency department note
1National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention. http://www.nccmerp.org/aboutMedErrors.html
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