{"id":4975,"date":"2011-06-30T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2011-06-30T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T15:00:51","slug":"computerized-outpatient-prescriptions-still-have-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=4975","title":{"rendered":"Computerized Outpatient Prescriptions Still Have Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_279\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-279\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PrescripPills_Photos8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-279\" title=\"PrescripPills_Photos8\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PrescripPills_Photos8.jpg\" alt=\"Pills in a prescription bottle (Photos8.com)\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PrescripPills_Photos8.jpg 200w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/PrescripPills_Photos8-150x149.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photos8.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Researchers from three Boston, Massachusetts medical centers, Harvard Medical School, and CVS Pharmacies analyzed records from automated prescription systems and found error rates similar to prescriptions written manually. The team&#8217;s findings appear online in the <a href=\"http:\/\/jamia.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2011\/06\/09\/amiajnl-2011-000205.abstract\"><em>Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association<\/em><\/a> (paid subscription required).<\/p>\n<p>The panel of clinicians reviewed 3,850 prescription records from a four-week period in 2008. These prescriptions were generated by automated prescription systems and received by a pharmacy chain in three different states.<\/p>\n<p>The analysts identified and classified medication errors, then tabulated the incidence of medication errors, potential adverse drug events &#8212; defined as errors with potential for harm &#8212; and rate of prescribing errors by type of error and by prescribing system.<\/p>\n<p>The team found nearly 12 percent of the prescriptions &#8212; 452 of 3,850 &#8212; had errors, in a few cases multiple errors. Of those prescriptions with errors, about one-third (35%) were considered serious enough to be classified as potential adverse drug events. None, however, were considered life-threatening. These error rates found for automated prescription systems are consistent with the literature on manual handwritten prescription error rates.<\/p>\n<p>The prescriptions analyzed were generated by 13 different automated systems. The error rates for these systems ranged from 5 to 37 percent. The most common error was information left out of the record, which occurred in about six in 10 (61%) prescriptions with errors.<\/p>\n<p>The authors conclude that automated prescription systems may have the potential to reduce medication errors, but the systems need to have functions built in to prevent errors &#8212; such as quality checks to highlight required information that&#8217;s missing &#8212; as well as supporting business processes.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=3875\">FDA Adverse Drug Event Reports Jump in Past Decade<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from three Boston, Massachusetts medical centers, Harvard Medical School, and CVS Pharmacies analyzed records from automated prescription systems and found error rates similar to prescriptions written manually. The team&#8217;s findings appear online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (paid subscription required). The panel of clinicians reviewed 3,850 prescription records from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[31,109,27,129,26],"class_list":["post-4975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulations","tag-biomedical","tag-computer-science","tag-pharmaceuticals","tag-statistics","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4978,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}