Adverse drug events present the single greatest risk of harm to patients in hospitals. Traditional efforts to detect ADEs have focused on voluntary reporting and tracking of errors. However, public health researchers have established that only 10 to 20 percent of errors are ever reported and, of those, 90 to 95 percent cause no harm to patients. Hospitals need a more effective way to identify events that do cause harm to patients, in order to select and test changes to reduce harm. Tracking ADEs per 1,000 medication doses over time is a useful way to tell if changes the team is making are improving the safety of the medication system.
Formula: The total number of ADEs identified in a sample of patient records, divided by the total number of medication doses administered to those patients. Multiply the result by 1,000
Adverse drug events present the single greatest risk of harm to patients in hospitals. Traditional efforts to detect ADEs have focused on voluntary reporting and tracking of errors. However, public health researchers have established that only 10 to 20 percent of errors are ever reported and, of those, 90 to 95 percent cause no harm to patients. Hospitals need a more effective way to identify events that do cause harm to patients, in order to select and test changes to reduce harm. Tracking ADEs per 1,000 medication doses over time is a useful way to tell if changes the team is making are improving the safety of the medication system.Formula: The total number of ADEs identified in a sample of patient records, divided by the total number of medication doses administered to those patients. Multiply the result by 1,000
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