Measuring up to Medication Safety In Hospitals.

• the number of pharmacy profiles without patient allergy information for new admission orders. • the percentage of medication orders with “error-prone” abbreviations prohibited by hospitals. • the percentage of encounters in which two identifiers are not used to verify the patient’s identity before a drug is administered. • the time interval between prescribing and administering “stat” medications • the number of pharmacy interventions per 100 hospital admissions. • the percentage of chemotherapy orders that do not comply with standardized prescribing guidelines (e.g., do all chemotherapy orders include the mg/m2 dose with the calculated dose, or are chemotherapy doses written for each daily dose, not the “total” course dose?)