Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

Why BMV - Resident Safety

BMV decreases errors

• Opportunity for errors
  • 588 Residents / 10 meds per day / 5880 med per day
  • 2,146,200 Meds per year
  • Average Medication Error Rate 6%
    • What if we only have 1% = 21,462 errors per year
    • 0.1% = 2146 Errors
• Noted through observation - Errors Prevented
  • Wrong dose errors prevented
  • Wrong medication errors prevented
  • Wrong resident errors prevented

Notes:

ICU- Wrong Medication nurse pulled ASA EC order was for plain.
Ltc- Wrong Med nurse pulled Ibu order was for ASA. Just grabbed the wrong med out of cart

Acute- Wrong med pulled from Pyxis caught with BMV
LTC- XR ordered but resident was getting plain medication.

Acute/LTC—Wrong patient eMAR open.