cover image: GUIDANCE FOR ADULT AND GENERAL HOSPITALS PARTICIPATING IN THE 2021

20.500.12592/1s5d24

GUIDANCE FOR ADULT AND GENERAL HOSPITALS PARTICIPATING IN THE 2021

31 Mar 2021

Hospitals that choose to take the Adult Inpatient Test via the CPOE Evaluation Tool will have their score from the Test included in their Overall CPOE Score, regardless of the score and without exception. [...] SUMMARY OF CHANGES FROM THE 2021 LEAPFROG HOSPITAL SURVEY First, the CPOE Evaluation Tool developers have combined the Therapeutic Duplication Order Checking Category and Drug Interactions Order Checking Category into a single Order Checking Category titled “Inappropriate Drug Combinations.” See a list of all Order Checking Categories. [...] DESCRIPTION OF THE CPOE EVALUATION TOOL The CPOE Evaluation Tool was designed by medication safety experts and researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Utah to test the ability of inpatient CPOE systems to alert licensed prescribers to frequent serious medication errors known to cause harm to patients. [...] ORDER CHECKING CATEGORIES Nine of the ten order checking categories included in the CPOE Evaluation Tool represent an area where a serious adverse drug event (ADE) could occur if the CPOE system’s clinical decision support fails to alert the prescriber. [...] Examples of Therapeutic Duplication include: o 2 Ace Inhibitors – Captopril and Lisinopril o 2 Statins – Atorvastatin and Simvastatin o 2 NSAID – Ibuprofen and Naprosyn o 2 Benzodiazepine – Diazepam and Alprazolam o Ibuprofen and Motrin (brand and generic name of the same drug) DRUG DIAGNOSIS Drug Diagnosis alerts should occur when the medication that is ordered is contraindicated based on a patie.

Authors

Co, Zoe

Pages
12
Published in
United States of America

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