Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

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