Improving emergency medicine clinician awareness of prehospital-administered medications.

Jeff Kamta; Bryan Fregoso; Andrew Lee; Catherine Kutsuris; Elizabeth Kadow; Christopher Walker; Benjamin Sensenbach; Caitlin O’Donnell; Andrew Porter; Jessica Blankenberg; Nicole M. Acquisto; Justin Mazzillo; Aaron Farney; Jeremy T Cushman; Maia Dorsett

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Improving emergency medicine clinician awareness of prehospital-administered medications.

August 9, 2023

Kamta J, Fregoso B, Lee A, et al. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2024;28(3):506-512.

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Handoffs from emergency medical services (EMS) to the emergency department (ED) are vulnerable to communication errors due to the time-pressured environment. This study reports on the implementation of an electronic health record (EHR) tool that added pre-hospital medication administration to the ED triage note to reduce medication administration errors (MAE). Although most ED providers reported they "always" review the triage note, MAE rates did not improve following implementation.

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