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July 9, 2024BMJ Quality & Safety

Frequency and preventability of adverse drug events in the outpatient setting

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RWRachel L WassermanHEHeba H EdreesBrigham and Women's HospitalMAMary G. AmatoBrigham and Women's Hospital

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Implication

Retrospective electronic health records review finds 5% of adult outpatients experience adverse drug events, highlighting the need for improved ambulatory safety.

Key Points

  • Adverse drug events affected 5% of patients across outpatient encounters, with most individuals experiencing a single event during the one-year evaluation.
  • Retrospective electronic health records review identified 198 adverse drug events among 170 patients, following trigger-based clinical chart audits.
  • Highlights an urgent need for outpatient patient safety strategies, given that 22% of adverse drug events were determined to be clinically preventable.

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Wasserman et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e60e42b6db6435875a1075https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2024-017098
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