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September 20, 2023 Weekly Issue

PSNet highlights the latest patient safety literature, news, and expert commentary, including Weekly Updates, WebM&M, and Perspectives on Safety.

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Ten years later, alarm fatigue is still a safety concern.
Albanowski K, Burdick KJ, Bonafide CP, et al. AACN Adv Crit Care. 2023;34:189-197.
Alarm (or alert) fatigue occurs when clinicians ignore alarms, usually due to the majority being invalid or nonactionable, and thus fail to respond or respond more slowly to actionable alerts. The article describes the progress made in reducing nonactionable alarms and making actionable alarms more useful to responding clinicians. Clinical approaches include customization of alert parameters to reduce...
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Preventing potential patient harm through clinical content interventions during oncology clinical trial implementation.
Loo VC, Kim S, Johnson LM, et al. J Patient Saf. 2023;19:460-464.
Ensuring the safety of clinical trial participants is paramount to successful, meaningful clinical research. In this study, researchers examined 585 clinical trial documents and found that 17% included potential patient safety interventions (e.g., resolving medication dosing discrepancies). The authors suggest that clinical specialists’ review of study protocol documents could enhance patient safety...
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Pharmacy e-prescription dispensing before and after CancelRx implementation.
Pitts SI, Olson S, Yanek LR, et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2023;Epub Sep 5.
Previous research has found that CancelRx can improve communication between electronic health record (EHR) systems and pharmacy dispensing systems and increase successful medication discontinuation. This interrupted time series analysis assessed the impact of CancelRx implementation on successful discontinuation of medications e-prescribed in ambulatory healthcare settings. After CancelRx implementation,...
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Update Date: August 30, 2023

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