The impact of drug error reduction software on preventing harmful adverse drug events in England: a retrospective database study.

Adam Sutherland; William S Gerrard; Arif Patel; Michelle Randall; Emma Weston

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The impact of drug error reduction software on preventing harmful adverse drug events in England: a retrospective database study.

August 24, 2022

Sutherland A, Gerrard WS, Patel A, et al. BMJ Open Qual. 2022;11(3):e001708.

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Smart pump software can improve medication safety but can also introduce patient safety hazards, such as alert fatigue. In this study, dose error reduction software (DERS) was implemented across two large UK National Health Service (NHS) institutes for one year. Findings indicate that compliance with DERS was 45%, but across one year of implementation, severe harm or death was avoided in up to 110 patients.

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