The consequences of medication errors are more severe for high-alert medications than general drugs. Improving pharmacists’ knowledge regarding is important to increase drug safety and maintain patient health. This study was aimed at understanding Chinese hospital exploring associated factors, provide suggestions management medications. A total 380 pharmacists from four hospitals in southern, n...

Risk-reduction strategies for high-alert medication lists.

Suhyun Lee, Ji Min Han, Kyu Nam Heo, Ah Young Sang il Min, A Jeong Kim, Sung Hwan Yun Hee Jo, Yoon Sook Cho, Young-Mi Ah, Ju-Yeun Lee. J. Kor. Soc. Health-syst. Pharm. 2022;39:498-507. https://doi.org/10.32429/jkshp.2022.39.4.006

BACKGROUND Electronic prescribing systems with decision support may improve patient safety in ambulatory care by offering drug allergy and drug interaction alerts. However, preliminary studies show that clinicians override most of these alerts. METHODS We performed a retrospective analysis of 233 537 medication safety alerts generated by 2872 clinicians in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Penns...

Purpose: High alert medications are enlightened as those medicines that bear the maximum threat of causing major patient harm when administered incorrectly. Nurses accountable for administration high medication; inappropriate can show a substantial clinical result and at times be deadly patients. Alert Medication is commonly used in emergency room, intensive care unit, pediatric ward medical wa...

OBJECTIVE Alerting systems, a type of clinical decision support, are increasingly prevalent in healthcare, yet few studies have concurrently measured the appropriateness of alerts with provider responses to alerts. Recent reports of suboptimal alert system design and implementation highlight the need for better evaluation to inform future designs. The authors present a comprehensive framework f...