Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

Results - Event Rates

• Adverse drug events
  • Events: 815
  • Rate: 9.8 per 100 resident-months
• Preventable adverse drug events
  • Events: 338
  • Rate: 4.1 per 100 resident-months

Notes:

In other words, if you have 100 residents, 2 events per month. Approximately half of the events we found were judged preventable—high rate.