Patterns in nursing home medication errors: disproportionality analysis as a novel method to identify quality improvement opportunities.

Richard A. Hansen; Portia Y. Cornell; Patrick B. Ryan; Charlotte E. Williams; Stephanie Pierson; Sandra B. Greene

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Patterns in nursing home medication errors: disproportionality analysis as a novel method to identify quality improvement opportunities.

December 15, 2010

Hansen RA, Cornell PY, Ryan PB, et al. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2010;19(10):1087-94.

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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.

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