Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

Drug Categories

Preventable Events

• Warfarin 12%
• Atypical antipsych 12%
• Loop diuretics 10%
• Benzos (intermediate) 9%
• Opioids 8%
• ACE inhibitors 8%
• Other antidepressants 7%
• Antiplatelets 7%
• Insulin 5%
• Laxatives 5%

Notes:

Comparing non-preventable to preventable events
Antipsychotic drugs involved in substantial proportion of both types anti-infectives primarily involved in non-preventable
anticoagulants, antidepressants, and sedatives/hypnotics important components of preventable events but involved in fewer of the non-preventable