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. 2003:2003:856.

Enterprise-wide drug-drug interaction alerting system

Julie A Greim  1 , Caroline Shek, Linda Jones, Robert Macauley, Marilyn Paterno, Barry H Blumenfeld, Gilad Kuperman
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Enterprise-wide drug-drug interaction alerting system

Julie A Greim et al. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2003.

Abstract

According to the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) 1999 report To Err is Human: Building a safer Health System, "medical errors kill some 44,000-98,0001 people in U.S. hospitals each year. Partners HealthCare System (PHS) is a large integrated delivery network in Boston, MA, which has as a goal improving patient care by preventing adverse drug events (ADE) and reducing medication errors enterprise-wide. PHS has developed a drug-drug Interaction (DDI) detection feature, for the suite of clinical applications currently used by its two major teaching institutions, Brigham & Women's Hospital (BWH) and Mass General Hospital (MGH). The following clinical applications will be using this drug-drug interaction feature: NICU Order Entry (OE) at BWH, MGH OE for pediatrics and adults, the Partners outpatient medical record, The LMR, and BICS OE at BWH.

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References

    1. Kohn L, Corrigan J, Donaldson M. To err is human: building a safer health system. Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. Washington: National Academy Press: 2001.

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