Patterns in nursing home medication errors: disproportionality analysis as a novel method to identify quality improvement opportunities.
Hansen RA, Cornell PY, Ryan PB, et al. Patterns in nursing home medication errors: disproportionality analysis as a novel method to identify quality improvement opportunities. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2010;19(10):1087-94. doi:10.1002/pds.2024.
This study applied a novel analytic tool to identify rates and patterns of medication error reporting. For example, warfarin was disproportionately co-reported with communication errors just as oxycodone and morphine were with name confusion.